Ep 78: Hew Strachan on Clausewitz (New Makers of Modern Strategy #7)

School of War · Jun 20, 2023 · 45m

Hew Strachan, Bishop Wardlaw Professor at the School of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews and a contributor to New Makers of Modern Strategy, joins the show to talk about Carl von Clausewitz.

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Times

• 02:10 Introduction

• 04:31 Serious-minded

• 09:43 On War

• 11:54 Deconstruct to construct

• 15:19 Distinctions in war

• 24:07 The American embrace of Clausewitz

• 28:00 Context is everything

• 32:14 Politics by other means

• 36:24 Clausewitz the Marxist

• 40:05 Absolute and Total

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