The Valley Campaign Letter of Clausewitz the Younger

Abstract

What you are about to read is opinion in a fictional setting The fiction is on two levels a fictional letter and a fictional commentator writing about the letter The premise is that Carl von Clausewitz is still alive in 1862 and that his work On War has not been published and is still undergoing revision. Details of the fiction are developed within the text The information on report Numbers (14)he Civil War is not part of the fiction and is based on the works appearing in the bibliography The representation of Clausewitz's work is this author's interpretation based on the core course study of which this paper is a part and the course materials cited in the bibliography The footnotes found herein are written in the voice of the commentator and represent the opinions of this author or elements of the fictional setting.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA441435

Entities

People

  • John L. Blinde

Organizations

  • National War College

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Center Of Gravity
  • Civil War
  • Deterrence
  • East Germany
  • Information Operations
  • Maneuvers
  • National Security
  • New Jersey
  • New York
  • Second World War
  • United States Military Academy
  • Universities
  • War
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Art

Readers

  • Library and Information Science
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.