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Posted on Nov 20, 2015
COL Sam Russell
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MAJ Alvin B.
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I have read and re-read "On War" many times. First as a young soldier, then as a cadet and as a junior officer and then in graduate school.

Each time i have learned something new, my insights being tempered by experience and new perspectives. His insights on the nature of war also reflects upon the nature of humanity and our innate nature.

War is a part of our being, be it waged on a global scale by super powers or the local level between clans.War is not always about physical violence, as the threat of violence is often enough to obtain a desired outcome.

While peace may be our desire and our highest aspiration, it is something of a false hope, an illusion on the horizon. War remains a constant driver in the human condition, war, or its shadow, spurn us on to new developments, and it is he reason we must be ready, if we are to emerge victorious once the inevitable arrives in one of its many guises.
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SSgt Boyd Herrst
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Clausewitz notes that good intentions can bring about negative results in war..
I liken that to the appeaser that feeds the alligator(s) snacks to avoid being eaten and is eaten anyway...
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MAJ Ken Landgren
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Very good paper! I love the Trinity of Passion, Military Prowess, and Rational Government are timeless and can be used today for paradigms of the Revolutionary war and Iraq. Add Mao's thoughts on insurgency and you have many tools to study Iraq. Clausewitz as the applicable theorist and Mao as the practitioner within Clausewitz' domain.
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