Is Saddam winning political war?

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Wed Mar 26 20:22:54 PST 2003


On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, andie nachgeborenen wrote:


> Well, maybe at one level. BNut at another, Clausewitz's maxim is
> normative, not descriptive. It tells us that war has a point, a purpose,
> and isn't just an opportunity for glory or an occasion for the
> self-expression of a warrior elite.

To make Clauswitz normative is to turn him on his head. And to make him even more redundant in the post WWI period, since thereafter no one anymore claimed glory or self-expression as a sufficient justification for going to war.

Michael



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