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1.3.6. (Critiques of Clausewitz) - Coggle Diagram
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.
Replacement authors:
Keegan: importance of culture on the causes of war
A History of Warfare
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?
Van Creveld: turns the causal relationship around, how and why people fight determine their political, economic, and social organization
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
Tofflers: Make war like we make money
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
Technology as a panacea, but no thought on why humans fight
All three reject the conceptional limitations of Clausewitz
Meilinger, Phillip. "Clausewitz's Bad Advice.” Armed Forces Journal 146, no.1 (August 2008): 18-21.