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Strategy before Clausewitz: linking warfare and statecraft, 1400-1830 [PDF]

, 2017
The theorising and practice of Strategy in a modern sense did not begin only with Napoleon and Clausewitz. The case studies of this book show that strategic thinking existed well before then, despite the lack of a commonly agreed word for it, if we ...
Heuser, Beatrice
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Bernard Brodie and the bomb: at the birth of the bipolar world [PDF]

, 2015
Bernard Brodie (1910-1978) was a leading 20th century theorist and philosopher of war. A key architect of American nuclear strategy, Brodie was one of the first civilian defense intellectuals to cross over into the military world.
Zellen, Barry
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Virtuous Violence and the Politics of Statecraft in Machiavelli, Clausewitz and Weber [PDF]

, 2010
This article seeks to problematise the dominant understandings of the relationship between politics and violence in political theory. Liberal political theory identifies politics with the pacified arena of the modern state; although violence may ...
Frazer, Elizabeth, Hutchings, Kimberly, HUTCHINGS, KJ, FRAZER, E   +3 more
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War in World Society: Towards a new order of global constitutionalism?

Global Policy, Volume 14, Issue 5, Page 746-754, November 2023., 2023
Abstract In world society, all wars are world wars and so is the present war in Ukraine even if the use of violence is broadly restricted to the Ukrainian area (a restriction imposed clearly imposed by global politics). World society emerged between 1750 and 1850 together with the first world wars and world revolutions that were fought on all ...
Hauke Brunkhorst
wiley   +1 more source

WHAT DID THUCYDIDES, SUN-TZU AND CLAUSEWITZ REALLY SAY?

Obrana a strategie, 2022
Classical strategic theorists constitute an important pillar of military strategy education, but their texts are often interpreted in contradictory ways.
Samuel Žilinčík, Ivo Pikner, Jaroslav Staněk   +2 more
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On War of the Past and the Present: the Evolution of Means of Armed Struggle and Military Thought in the Conditions of Global Confrontation

Сравнительная политика, 2022
War as a political and social phenomenon is one of the central subjects in political science and international studies. This is one issue where theory and practice are intertwined most closely and updated most frequently since each new military conflict ...
A. A. Kokoshin, M. A. Suchkov
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Lyotard versus Hegel: The violent end of postmodernity [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo
In the final phase of the Cold War, Jean-François Lyotard popularized the end of modernity and the dawn of a new era, “postmodernity”. But postmodernism is already over again.
Herberg-Rothe Andreas
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Der Kalte Krieg und die "binären Termini"

Genealogy+Critique, 2015
This essay explores Foucault's critique of binary and antagonistic modes of thinking with regard to Cold War's confrontational discourses and the politics of détente.
Patrick Kilian
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Two dimensions of the Russo-Ukrainian war [PDF]

Соціологія
The essay examines the nature of the Russo-Ukrainian War through the lens of two conceptual models: the trinitarian and the total war models. The analytical point of departure is the author’s cautionary note regarding the 'fog of war,' which disorganizes
Rodion Pryshva
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Clausewitz, Keegan, and the Big History of Warfare

Journal of Big History, 2020
As a social phenomenon, is war subordinate to politics, as Carl von Clausewitz argued in the early nineteenth century, or, instead, is it the product of an instinctive ‘warrior culture’, common to all peoples and times and beyond politics, as John Keegan
Daniel Barreiros, Daniel Ribera Vainfas
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