 | James Titus - 1984 - 312 pages
...established. "No one starts a war — or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so," Clausewitz wrote, — "without first being clear in his mind what he intends...achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it. The former is its political purpose, the latter its operational objective."4 French policy-makers were... | |
 | 1984 - 1014 pages
...military objectives. And we should have and send the forces needed to do just that. As Clausewitz wrote, "No one starts a war — or rather, no one in his...achieve by that war, and how he intends to conduct it." War may be different today than in Clausewitz's time, but the need for well-defined objectives and... | |
 | Harry R. Borowski - 1986 - 492 pages
...operation that must have a single, ultimate objective in which all particular aims are reconciled. No one starts a war — or rather, no one in his senses...achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it."2 A counsel of perfection, of course, from a long time ago when war and much else was a great deal... | |
 | Earl L. Sullivan, Jacqueline S. Ismael - 1991 - 268 pages
...Strategic Studies and the Middle East Periodical Literature in the United States, 1980-1990 P. EDWARD HALEY No one starts a war— or rather, no one in his senses...achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it. The former is its political purpose; the latter is its operational objective. This is the governing... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services - 1991 - 938 pages
...fundamental failure. No one starts a war. Rather, no one in his senses ought to do so without being first clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it, warned that preeminent military theorist Karl von Clausewitz over a century and a half ago. The former... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services - 1991 - 942 pages
...fundamental failure. No one starts a war. Rather, no one in his senses ought to do so without being first clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it, warned that preeminent military theorist Karl von Clausewitz over a century and a half ago. The former... | |
 | James R. Graham - 1993 - 150 pages
...a war," said Carl von Clausewitz in On War, "or rather no one in his senses ought to do so, without being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it. Failure to heed that admonition was one of the fatal flaws of the Vietnam War. "Almost 70 percent of... | |
 | DIANE Publishing Company - 1994 - 422 pages
...Technology 136, no. 4, January 27, 1992, 64-65. BOSNIA: A QUESTION OF INTERVENTION BRETT D. BARKEY No one starts a war— or rather, no one in his senses...achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.1 Carl von Clausewitz A TURBULENT HISTORY UPON THE BALKAN SHORES HAVE CRASHED SOME OF Europe's most... | |
 | Williamson Murray - 1996 - 702 pages
...Howard and Peter Paret, Princeton, 1976): "No one starts a war, or rather no one in his senses should do so, without first being clear in his mind what...intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to achieve it." 5 Polybius, III, 4, 10- 11: "No sane man goes to war with his neighbors simply for the... | |
 | David Jablonsky - 1994 - 344 pages
...clear purposes and definable military objectives. "No one starts a war." Clausewitz pointed out. "... without first being clear in his mind what he intends...achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it."141 The second lesson is that if ends are clear. means must serve them without succumbing to gradualism.... | |
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No one starts a war — or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so — without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it. 
