War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.— Thomas PaineThe well-known is such because it is well-known, not because it is known.
— G.W.F. Hegel
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CLAUSEWITZ DRINKING WITH STEIN
AND GNEISENAU IN 1815
Detail of Painting "Die Tafelrunde"
by Josef Schneider
Displayed on the Clausewitz Homepage by courtesy
of the
Headquarters of the German Army Forces Command,
Koblenz (HQ GARFCOM)
Clausewitz on Facebook
Clausewitz Tourism
(in the city of Burg)
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1945: In the Horatio Hornblower novel The Commodore, by C. S. Forester, the protagonist meets von Clausewitz during the events surrounding the defence ofRiga.
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1945: In That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis, Lord Feverstone (Dick Devine) defends rudely cutting off another professor by saying "[...] but then I take the Clauswitz view. Total war is the most humane in the long run."
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1955: In Ian Fleming's novel Moonraker, James Bond reflects that he has achieved Clausewitz's first principle in securing his base, though this base is a relationship for intelligence purposes and not a military installation.
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1977: In The Wars by Timothy Findley, a novel about a nineteen-year-old Canadian officer who serves in World War I, one of his fellow soldiers reads Clauswitz's On War, and occasionally quotes some of its passages.
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2000: In the Ethan Stark military science fiction book series by John G. Hemry, Clausewitz is often quoted by Private Mendoza and his father Lieutenant Mendoza to explain events that unfold during the series.
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2004: Bob Dylan mentions Clausewitz on pages 41 and 45 of his Chronicles: Volume One, saying he had "a morbid fascination with this stuff," that "Clausewitz in some ways is a prophet" and reading Clausewitz can make you "take your own thoughts a little less seriously." Dylan says that Vom Kriege was one of the books he looked through among those he found in his friend's personal library as a young man playing at The Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village
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1962: In the film Lawrence of Arabia, General Allenby (Jack Hawkins) contends to T. E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) that "I fight like Clausewitz, you fight likeSaxe." To which Lawrence replies, "We should do very well indeed, shouldn't we?"
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1977: In Sam Peckinpah's film Cross of Iron, Feldwebel Steiner (James Coburn) has an ironic conversation in the trenches between hostilities with the advancing Red Army with his comrade, Cpl. Schnurrbart, in which they refer to German philosophers and their views on war. Cpl. Schnurrbart: " ...and von Clausewitz said, 'war is a continuation of state policy by other means.'" "Yes," Steiner says, overlooking the trenches, " ...by other means."
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1995: In the film Crimson Tide, the naval officers of the nuclear submarine have a discussion about the meaning of the quote "War is a continuation of politics by other means." The executive officer (Denzel Washington) contends that the interpretation of Clausewitz's ideas by the captain (Gene Hackman) is too simplistic.
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2007: In the film Lions for Lambs, during a military briefing in Afghanistan Lt. Col. Falco (Peter Berg) says: "Remember your von Clausewitz: 'Never engage the same enemy for too long or he will ...'", "adapt to your tactics", completes another soldier.
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2009: In the film Law Abiding Citizen, Clausewitz is frequently quoted by Clyde Shelton, the main character played by Gerard Butler.
The Children's Illustrated Clausewitz
http://clausewitzforkids.wordpress.com/
We haven't actually figured out what this website is for/about yet, but sometime
when we have time to kill we may try to plow through it.
Clausewitz as Art
Ansichten der Gegend um Clausewitz 2002
http://www.galerieimtaxispalais.at/ausstellungen/gostner/gostner_raum4.htm
In "Ansichten der Gegend um Clausewitz" (exemplarischer Aufzug "Konflikt-strategien") wird die Bühne der Konflikte auf die abstrakte Ebene der strategischen Planung verschoben. Alle vier Wände des Raumes bedecken Wandzeichnungen, die Gostner mit Kohle aufgetragen hat. Es sind Planskizzen von historischen Schlachten von der Antike bis heute. Die formal bestechenden Schlachtenpläne fungieren für Gostner als ästhetische Manifestationen und zugleich als spezielle Modelle, die für den Krieg, eine spezifische Form der Organisation von politischen Interessens-gegensätzen und Gewalt, entwickelt wurden. Die Diagramme könnten jedoch ebenso auf andere, alltägliche Konfliktformen verweisen.
See also:
Another Artist Confronts Clausewitz
... another victim of misinformed US Army instruction. http://www.talbot1.com/otheractivities/armywarcollege.htm
A SONG FOR K. CLAUSEWITZ
Curt Sachs: http://home.swipnet.se/fer/a_sachs.html
Nick Spencer, Emory University
CLAUSEWITZ TOY SOLDIER COMPANY
Hey, these guys actually make toy soldiers....
The Nine Grounds of Intellectual Warfare -- by Paul Mann, Department of English, Pomona College (1996)
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Eva von Clausewitz:
Fashion Designer Clausewitz in High Fashion. Eva is descended from one of Carl von Clausewitz's brothers.
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THE EMPIRE BUILDER:
WAR AND THE SUBJECT OF THE HUMANITIES
by Jenny Horne & Jonathan Kahana
ABSTRACT
In Carl von Clausewitz's 1832 political treatise On War, the military general is given the form of the humanist scholar. But it isn't until the establishment in the United States of the discipline of the Humanities, between the world wars, that this traditional figure of knowledge is given official discursive status. Using Clausewitz and the rhetoric of the most recent "crisis in the Humanities", we pose the question, "where in fact are our military institutions located?".
In order to show the interdependence of these two apparently discrete histories, one would have to redefine modern warfare and humanist scholarship in terms of each other. To this end, we frame the humanist ideals of rational debate, erudition and cultural appreciation, and the production of truth and beauty, as historically linked to the epistemology of war. We address a recent tactical example of this perpetual war -- the closing of the humanities department at the University of Minnesota.
[Discusses Clausewitz and Foucault, et al.]
Clausewitz in Scientology
(50 hits in Google.com!)
"If you think that Scientology is a religion, read on. One of the main sources for the "technology" used by Scientology's OSA is a volume not by L. Ron Hubbard, but by a man named Carl Von Clausewitz, called On War."
The Minton Papers #91: Re: The enemy is amongst us!
The activities of Scientology's intelligence agencies ...
Clausewitz in Mormon Theology "Karl von Clausewitz's great work Vom Kriege, or On War, has been the Bible of the military for 150 years. The Book of Mormon reads as if it were written by a diligent student of this work. This is another case of Joseph Smith's timing to the split second, because the work wasn't published until 1833. Otherwise, you could accuse him of stealing the whole thing, because it's right out of Clausewitz,"
See also: Paradigms
and Pitfalls of Approach to Warfare in the Book of Mormon
Review of Warfare in the Book of Mormon by Stephen D. Ricks and William
J. Hamblin
Reviewed By: David B. Honey
Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1991. Pp.118-40
Clausewitz rejected in Nazi propaganda
"Then too there were doubters who failed to see the greatness and brilliance of the Führer's decisions during the struggle for power. They favored the false wisdom that Clausewitz discussed: they wanted nothing but to escape danger." Josef Goebbels, "Our Hitler,"1939 Speech on Hitler's 50th Birthday, Die Zeit Ohne Beispiel (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1941).
Willkommen im Hotel Carl von Clausewitz
Hotel Carl von Clausewitz In der Alten Kaserne 35 39288 Burg / bei MagdeburgTel.: 0 3921 - 45213 und 45214 Fax: 0 3921 - 45215
Panzer Division Clausewitz
"In April of 1945, Panthers equipped with IR equipment (solution B) joined Panzer Division Clausewitz and in mid April near Uelzen destroyed entire platoon of British Comet cruiser tanks. Also on April 21st of 1945, same Panthers overran an American anti-tank position on the Weser-Elbe Canal."
There are other references at Jason Pipes' FELDGRAU.COM, and in the Third Reich FactBook.
Sekundarschule II Carl von Clausewitz
Straße der Einheit 35a
39288 Burg
Tel.: +49 (0) 3921 2473
Schulleiter: Herr Scholz
Stellvertreter: Herr Steinhauer
A translation of Clausewitz's 'On War' forAusterlitz players.
By Johnathan Pascall
"Modern Weapons and the Multi-Racial Empire," Yggdrasil. [Dreamers after Europo-American racial empire discover Clausewitz.]
Clausewitz in fantasy wargame,
"Darkhold." [Link has disappeared.]
Xandrils IAC Webpage
I, Lord General Xandril, am an Underworld crime figure from New York City. I am an avid reader of Sun Tzu, Feldmarshal Erik von Manstein, General Heinz Guderian, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, and Karl von Clausewitz. This is my webpage...it is dedicated to all of those I have raped, killed, maimed, and hurt in anyway. Crime Pays !!!!!! IAC Meets Karl von Clausewitz
CLAUSEWITZ DISCOVERED BY GENERATION X!
IntellectualCapital Insider: Carl
von Clausewitz meets Jack D. Ripper
by Jeffrey Fisher
An intelligent discussion by someone who obviously doesn't have a clue
what either war or politics are.
A Gamester (I think)
Cosmic Baseball Association: Wonderland Warriors
Clausewitz appears prominantly on this somewhat cryptic site for years 1996-1999, but then unaccountably starts to drop away.
