Clausewitz Studies

“Carl [von Clausewitz] and Marie’s love for the classics of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller is well-known yet the sheer volume makes clear how much poetry and literature meant to the couple.” - Vanya Eftimova Bellinger (@vanyaef) thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/201…

This detailed study of #Scharnhorst by Clausewitz scholar Vanya Eftimova Bellinger (@vanyaef) includes a translation of the Reasons and Purposes, and about the means to achieve them (1803) of the Military Society he established in January 1802. thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/201…

The Bridge kicks off 2023 with a veritable treasure of #strategy and #history. @vanyaef has provided us with a first ever English translation of a Clausewitzian memorandum, and a first ever published image of the Prussian military theorist. thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/202…

We are pleased to present @vanyaef 's insightful article #CLAUSEWITZ POST. #OnWar thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/202…

"A newly discovered drawing, now in the collection of the @DHMBerlin , promises to shed new light on Clausewitz's life." -@vanyaef thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/202…

Russian soldiers post heinous videos cutting Ukrainian POW genitalia off. Then videos surface of charred prisoners (40+ killed) after Russia bombs a POW camp in #Olenivka to cover up their tortures. What more do we need to see? @POTUS send #Ukraine️ ALL weapons they need #Bucha

Calling all female military historians for the annual @SMH_Historians Women's Happy Hour @brickanchor on Friday, May 21 from 5:15 to 7. Sponsored by the Center for Military, War, and Society at @UnivOfKansas, the @TCU History Dept., and the @DaleCenter at @SouthernMiss

The Board of Directors is excited to announce that Dr. Heather Pace and Dr. Katherine Voyles are taking the helm of our journal as the Managing Editors and journal team leadership!! Follow them at @Heather_at_ACTS and @1977khv thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/202…

Is there a possibility that we no longer endlessly discuss the term "strategic autonomy" and instead concentrate on what obviously many Germans, French and Poles want: to become more capable to act as Europeans while at the same time cooperating closely with the US?

Delighted to communicate the first edition of the #UniversityofGlasgow Student-led Strategy and Security Journal 3sjournal.org with the first issue out now!

“Guide to Tactics, Or the Theory of the Combat” is a better introduction to Clausewitz than On War. A fabulous review by @teaandtactics of this new book on Clausewitz, war and combat. ow.ly/ta3s30qs7Xx

We're starting the week off with @teaandtactics' review of #Clausewitz' 'Guide to Tactics, or a Theory of the Combat' as translated by Colonel J. J. Graham. #Reviewing #NatSec thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/202…

Good Morning #BridgeCommunity! Before you head out today read James W.E. Smith's insightful article 'Corbett's Relevance to the Modern Strategic Thinker'. #NationalSecurity #NatSec thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/201…

The Bridge is proud to announce our Student #WritingContest is back for 2020! Open to civilian & military students at every level, the deadline to enter is June 1st. Better get started! #TheBridgeWrites bit.ly/3c3GQ6E

Old but good

Attention all #SAMSters @us_sams, now you can forget email and send your correspondence by other means. #ClausewitzStamp

This year we celebrate Carl von Clausewitz's 240th birthday. Just in time for the party, the new postage stamp is out. Unfortunately, for now, it's only sold in Carl's hometown, Burg bei Magdeburg, and collectors have to travel to get it there #clausewitz

"With its mass of vivid impressions and the doubts which characterize all information and opinion, there is no activity like war to rob men of confidence in themselves and in others, and to divert them from their original course of action," Carl von Clausewitz, On War, Bk I, Ch 3

"Nowhere in life is this common as in war, where the facts are seldom fully known and the underlying motives even less so." Carl von Clausewitz, On War, Book II, Chapter 5

@Scholars_Stage I think in this passage Clausewitz explores how difficult is to be a great commander. Mediocre generals do not lack qualities - otherwise they wouldn't have risen to the top. But being a great general requires much, much more...