http://cominganarchy.com/2005/08/06/blogosphere-on-imperial-grunts-1/ Speak Victorian, Think Pagan Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:05:30 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://cominganarchy.com/2005/08/06/blogosphere-on-imperial-grunts-1/comment-page-1/#comment-17465 IJ Sat, 06 Aug 2005 16:10:08 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/?p=963#comment-17465 The purpose of a national military? To safeguard global connectivity, or to pursue the Clausewitz "philosophy of war":http://www.clausewitz.com/CWZHOME/CWZSUMM/CWORKHOL.htm#Politik: >war is a purely rational act of state policy. Writing in German, Clausewitz used the word Politik, and his most famous phrase has been variously translated as "War is a continuation of `policy'"”?or of `politics'"”?by other means." The purpose of a national military? To safeguard global connectivity, or to pursue the Clausewitz philosophy of war: >war is a purely rational act of state policy. Writing in German, Clausewitz used the word Politik, and his most famous phrase has been variously translated as “War is a continuation of `policy’”â��?or of `politics’”â��?by other means.”

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