Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, March 16, 2008 1:45:41 AM
"Clausewitz would understand: terrorism is the extension of Islamist politics by other means."
The Prussian military thinker Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is
widely acknowledged as the most important of the major strategic theorists.
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Can We Win the Ideological War?
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Asked during World War II why the British continued to fight so ferociously, Churchill is said to have snorted, “If we stop, you’ll find out.”
The question arises in the war on terror: we know who the main enemy is, al-Qaeda, the men and movement responsible for 9/11, but what are they fighting for? What is their war all about?
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