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- Mary Poovey, New York University, USA
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'American Culture Transformed offers an interesting sampling of the cultural landscape in America after 9/11. The authors provide compelling snapshots of iconic moments and figures from the military, economics, the arts, and politics. The book will stir memories and make us uncomfortable again.' - Mary Poovey, New York University, USA
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31 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
This edition only includes Books I-IV of 'On War,' just half the book, and the 'active' table of contents only extends to the introduction. Look elsewhere.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This Penguin Edition of On War should be avoided at all costs. This is a weirdly edited and seriously misleading edition, put together by Anatol Rapoport in 1968. Rapoport was a biologist and musician--indeed, he was something of a renaissance man and later made some interesting contributions to game theory. However, he was outraged by the Vietnam War and extremely hostile to the state system and to the alleged "neo-Clausewitzian," Henry Kissinger. He severely and misleadingly abridged Clausewitz's own writings, partly, of course, for reasons of space in a small paperback. Nonetheless--for reasons that surpasseth understanding--he retained Maude's extraneous introduction, commentary, and notes, then used Maude's errors to condemn Clausewitzian theory. Between Graham's awkward and obsolete translation, Maude's sometimes bizarre intrusions, and Rapoport's hostility (aimed more at the world in general, and at Kissinger in particular, than at Clausewitz personally), the Penguin edition is badly misleading as to Clausewitz's own ideas. The influential modern military journalist/historian John Keegan apparently derives much of his otherwise unique misunderstanding of Clausewitz from Rapoport's long, hostile introduction--necessarily so, since he has obviously never read Clausewitz's own writings, not even the rest of the text of this strange edition. I would recommend the Graham or Graham/Maude translation. I if you do own this twisted Penguin version put it in a glass case, get it bronzed, or burn it--but READ something else.
Format:Paperback
'War is merely the continuation of policy by other means' too often this is quoted too often out of context misunderstood. War is not separate of politics war is indeed a part of politics, it is politics 'With' other means. This is the essence of Clausewitz's insight into the nature of warfare and war making, policy makers today really do not understand this any more and neither do the armed forces command hirearchy. Having fed upon the fashionable mantras, pc rhetoric, ideas which have eminated out of academia having a detrimental impact, ideas such as RMA, Transformations of war, the so called humanitarian interventions, far too much uncritical acceptance of these fashionable misdirected mantras, taken from programs of naive and arrogant academic misinformed research with no understanding of the nature of warfare, all extorted from academics the likes of Kaldor and Van Creveld in their myopic Ivory Towers of failure. Indeed the abandonment of Clausewitz is one of primary and functionary reasons why Western military forces can no longer fight to win, all they are able to do is fight to save the political face of their political masters. The armed forces today as with politicians and so called experts in the field do see politics and war as separate entities, something they believe can be switched on and switched off at will. Well it can't be done, both are one you can't have one without the other, failing to grasp this fundamental dooms your military effort to failure, as our military failure in Iraq and Afghanistan clearly show. War and politics are interlinked it is dynamic process which can not by its very nature be separated, you can not have a military operation separate from politics, the very essence of the war is political in its nature from start to completion. This is something the ancient Greeks, Romans understood perfectly as did the great powers of Clausewitz's time. Today it seems only countries such as China, India, Pakistan, Iran and indeed the Taliban understand and practice. Until we can relearn the lessons of Clausewitz great insight, then Western military forces will be condemned to perpetual failure.
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