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Ain't that fascism in a nutshell?
If I remember correctly, treating war as a boring logistics war (as callous as it is) is arguably MORE effective than what fascists want.
Be the biggest baddest dude and you win from sheer badassery.
Military history can be summed up by one group going "War is best fought by a bunch of people who would rather be doing literally anything else, like accountants, teachers, engineers, and logistics managers", followed by another tough guy going "Nah, war is about me being a glorious badass, and... ARGH! I'm dead!"
I feel there's a mid-point here where they're like "Hey these guys can fight back! That's cheating! No fair!"
Basically the response of ex-military who went to Ukraine and were crying about Russians having air support; also the response of military today that Iran can give them a bloody nose
That’s the one I’m looking for!
"I am supposed to be teaching ninth grade history, not fighting a war!"
"Those who fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it."
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Clausewitz talks about this at length, 90% of success in war is making sure shit's in the right place at the right time.
It's funny that Clausewitz became *the war guy' when his career consists of the Rhine campaign (Had to be bailed out by the Austrians), the war of the fourth coalition (loss), working a background role as the Prussian army was reformed along Napoleonic line, defecting to Russia and participated in one battle that he lost, going home to Prussia to negotiate Prussia betraying their alliance with France so he could participate in the battle of Ligny (loss) and the battle of Wavre (loss) at which point he retired from combat.
He was involved in a battle that resulted in the occupation of a major European capital 2 times on the losing side.
TBH, he never commanded himself, just was a staff officer, and wrote a book drawing from his experiences on the dumb shit that resulted in defeats.
Those who can't, teach
He spent most of his time as a teacher on sick leave because he was shitting out his doo doo ass, and most of the work on the thing he's most known for ("On War") was done by his wife while she was also busy having two other jobs. Incidentally she also got him his promotion to colonel and his teaching job.
The man was hard carried through life by his wife.
I was about to say "well, at least he had the ability to self-reflect and write about why he lost and all the fuckups he made" and then you reveal that it was all his wife lmao
I'm not saying he didn't do anything for his magnum opus. That would be unfair. But his wife finished his magnum opus after he died leaving a bunch of unfinished manusccripts and a bunch of notes and got the result published.
For all of his faults, it seems he was a good husband. And sometimes, that is all that counts.
He clearly has a lot of experience losing, so he knows what's the opposite
You got it ...Thats it. Thats the meme