In his chapter on military genius, Clausewitz writes about a commander’s coup d’oeil, an ability to make quick and correct decisions on the battle field as something that distinguishes a military genius from the rest of us. Clausewitz had little to say about the basis for this for the ability, however. The present study represents a first attempt to understand the commander’s coup d’oeil as an ...

<p>Economic Resilience is a dynamic condition of the nation's economic life that contains tenacity and resilience ability to develop national strength in facing overcoming all threats, obstacles, disturbances, challenges originating from abroad within country. Asymmetric war involves two or more actors through broad battlefield includes Trigatra (geography, demography, natural resources) ...

This paper analysis the evolution of US force structure after 1975 in two core aspects: foreign policy and military modernization. Building on works Clausewitz (2003) Mearsheimer (1981), we argue that a country's should be based mainly considerations. The Army followed this logic until its defeat Vietnam (1975), but traumatic event precipitated reforms before proper reformulation country’s obje...

Since the beginning of its history philosophy deals with question for meaning war. This question, however, was always understood as causes war: Why is there war? Where does it come from? The article presupposes that only this and attempts to respond can shed light onto interpretation historical reality war, which finally reason reflect on causation. refers a set notions texts, belong discourse ...

After distilling 2,500 years of military thought, particularly that Chinese strategist Sun Tzu, Prussian theorist Carl von Clausewitz, and U.S. Air Force colonel John R. Boyd, Warfighting, Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication (MCDP) 1, does a remarkable job describing war warfighting philosophy. Noticeably absent in this document, however, are the ideas Swiss Antoine-Henri Jomini. More importantl...