Clausewitz vs. Sun Tzu Round II: The High Seas

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It’s hard to imagine that the two most influential writers on war, Sun Tzu and Clausewitz, never discussed the part seaborne operations should play during a conflict.  Perhaps in Sun Tzu’s case it is more understandable, being that he wrote from an ancient perspective, when [...]

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The Franco-Prussian War: Causes & Effects

Introduction
 When the Versailles Treaty was signed in Paris in 1919 formally ending the First World War, there were some forwarding thinking observers who saw in the document the “seeds of the next war.”  These foreign policy soothsayers saw the punitive measures of economic sanctions and harsh military restrictions leveled against The Second Reich, not to [...]

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