Clausewitz lives

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Sun Mar 30 20:43:23 PST 2003



> From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
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> An anecdote which may or may not be illuminating. Back in 1967 I was
> working in my office in the evening when a history asst. prof also
> working late dropped by with the glum news that his chairman had just
> bounced his dissertation draft on him: it was on the influcence of
> Clausewitz on Lenin.

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Charles: One of those sayings attributed to Lenin that one can't necessarily document is that regarding Clausewitz famous maxim - war is politics by other means- Lenin said "yes, other _violent_ means".

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