"The aggressor is always peace-loving ... he would
prefer
to take over our country unopposed." CLAUSEWITZ
"A short jump is certainly easier than a long one,
but no one wanting to get across a wide ditch would begin by jumping
half-way." CLAUSEWITZ
"The Haiti intervention by U.S. forces acting under
a United Nations mandate, for instance, was defended as an exercise
in restoring a Haitian democracy that had never existed; but it might
be better described in the language of Clausewitz as the continuation
of American immigration control by other means." THE RT
HON THE BARONESS THATCHER. LG.,OM.,FRS., AT WESTMINSTER COLLEGE,
FULTON, MISSOURI ON SATURDAY, 9 MARCH 1996 "NEW THREATS FOR OLD."
"It is an ANCIENT Welsh ART based on a BRILLIANTLY simple
I-D-E-A, which is a SECRET. The best form of DEFENCE is ATTACK (Clausewitz)
and the most VITAL element of ATTACK is SURPRISE (Oscar HAMMERstein).
Therefore, the BEST way to protect yourself AGAINST any ASSAILANT is
to ATTACK him before he attacks YOU... Or BETTER... BEFORE the THOUGHT
of doing so has EVEN OCCURRED TO HIM!!! SO YOU MAY BE ABLE TO RENDER
YOUR ASSAILANT UNCONSCIOUS BEFORE he is EVEN aware of your very existence!"
MONTY PYTHON
"Christ, Henry, Frank's got everything here except Clausewitz,
On Hemorrhoids!" HAWKEYE PIERCE, MASH
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ: STRATEGY
FOR COOKS
An essay by Daniel Moran (Professor, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School)
Sample: "Cooking is thus an instrument of eating, the pursuit of
digestion by other means."
Clausewitz in Congress
Congressman: You say ''to paraphrase Clausewitz.''
What is that? What is Clausewitz?
DoD Undersecretary: I apologize for the analogy, which
is obscure. The book, I have to say, is impenetrable, and I think
the only part of it that is—that anybody mostly has ever
read is the one line that ''war is the continuation of policy
by other means.''
HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE,
THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1997
The whole truth
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