Comments | mrissa: It's not like the Highlander: example 804.

mrissa

It's not like the Highlander: example 804.

Jul 24, 2011 14:39

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also_huey July 24 2011, 19:40:27 UTC

How do you feel about "all Clausewitz, all the time"?

mrissa July 24 2011, 19:41:55 UTC

I haven't actually seen that much Clausewitz for epigraphs (possibly I am reading the wrong end of the historical spectrum for this). So for me, "some Clausewitz, some of the time" would be really quite refreshing.

I just feel that any time someone groans, "Oh, that again," it's gotten to be too much of A Thing.

alecaustin July 24 2011, 20:18:54 UTC

Clausewitz is what people used to quote before Sun Tzu became all fashionable in the '80s, alas.

mrissa July 24 2011, 20:34:47 UTC

Ah, I missed the Clausewitz phase between Tacitus and Sun Tzu.

It surprises me ... freelikebeer July 26 2011, 20:33:19 UTC

when non-military people have heard of Clausewitz. It's dense reading. Also makes me feel illiterate, since I only know about Clausewitz because I know military people.

Re: It surprises me ... mrissa July 26 2011, 20:43:16 UTC

My grandpa was a Marine, and my mother spent a year of my childhood up to her neck in Liddell-Hart, so...yes, non-military, but.

clarentine July 25 2011, 00:14:46 UTC

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