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Updated: May 16, 2025
Mr. Wontner seemed to have heard of it. We had to pick Eames off the floor, where he had cast himself from excess of delight. 'Oh, Heavens! said Mr. Wontner after a long pause. 'What have I done? What haven't I done? We felt the temperature in the car rise as he blushed. 'You didn't talk tactics, Clausewitz? said Bobby. 'Oh, say it wasn't tactics, darling! 'It was, said Wontner.
This, if supported by infantry, could have outflanked the enemy while the perilous rush was made against the bridge; and such a turning movement would probably have enveloped the Austrian force while it was being shattered in front. That is the view in which the strategist, Clausewitz, regards this encounter.
"A people can only hope to take up a firm position in the political world when national character and military tradition act and react upon each." These are the words of Clausewitz, the great philosopher of war, and he is incontestably right.
This second distinction that is, between Limited and Unlimited wars Clausewitz regarded as of greater importance than his previous one founded on the negative or positive nature of the object. He was long in reaching it. His great work On War as he left it proceeds almost entirely on the conception of offensive or defensive as applied to the Napoleonic ideal of absolute war.
The second classification to which we are led by the political theory of war, is one which Clausewitz was the first to formulate and one to which he came to attach the highest importance. It becomes necessary therefore to examine his views in some detail not because there is any need to regard a continental soldier, however distinguished, as an indispensable authority for a maritime nation.
It will be observed, as was natural enough, that all through his work Clausewitz had in his mind war between two contiguous or at least adjacent continental States, and a moment's consideration will show that in that type of war the principle of the limited object can rarely if ever assert itself in perfect precision. Clausewitz himself put it quite clearly.
Development of Strategical Science. Now what Clausewitz held precisely was this that when the conditions are not favourable for the use of the higher form, the seizure of a small part of the enemy's territory may be regarded as a correct alternative to destroying his armed forces. But he clearly regards this form of war only as a make-shift.
Consequently, they appear to call for some such special classification, and to fall naturally into the category which Clausewitz called "War limited by contingent." It was a nature of war well enough known in another form on the Continent.
It was published in 1831, and followed within a year by another one: An account of the internal state of affairs and of the social condition of Poland. Both writings, as in fact everything else from his pen since about 1830, had a more or less direct bearing on his military vocation; since war, according to Clausewitz, is nothing but the continuation of politics by other than diplomatic means.
And so, by way of an eighty-year-old liqueur brandy, to tactics and the great General Clausewitz, unknown to the Average Army Man. Here The Infant, at a whisper from Ipps whose face had darkened like a mulberry while he waited excused himself and went away, but Stalky, Colonel of Territorials, wanted some tips on tactics.
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