1.3.6. (Critiques of Clausewitz)

Metz, Steven. “A Wake for Clausewitz: Toward a Philosophy of 21st-Century Warfare.” Parameters 24, no. 12 (Winter 1994-1995): 126-132.

Meilinger, Phillip. "Clausewitz's Bad Advice.” Armed Forces Journal 146, no.1 (August 2008): 18-21.

Replacement authors:

Keegan: importance of culture on the causes of war

Van Creveld: turns the causal relationship around, how and why people fight determine their political, economic, and social organization

Tofflers: Make war like we make money

All three reject the conceptional limitations of Clausewitz

War and Anti-War

Three economic revolutions:

First wave: agrarian

Second wave: industrial revolution

Third wave: based on human knowledge and will upend all ways of life, including how we wage war

Historic power struggle to deal with trisected rather than just bisected power

A History of Warfare

Technology as a panacea, but no thought on why humans fight

Clausewitz did not recognize how his own culture narrowed his thinking of war... what is war when there is no state and no formal military?

The Transformation of War

Interesting idea that states will lose power if they're unable to protect their citizens against the much more prevalent low intensity conflict

We (first world nations) will become more like third world nations