It’s Sun Tzu’s Time in the Barrel

SWJED — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:43:49 +0000

It’s Sun Tzu’s Time in the Barrel SWJED Mon, 03/11/2019 - 6:43am

Thus it is with the latest assault on Clausewitz’s preeminence within the curriculum of the nation’s war colleges. On the website Task & Purpose, Major Jamie Schwandt recently posted an article with a title primed for maximum indignation: “Why we should stop teaching Clausewitz.” Schwandt’s argument is that since Clausewitz’s ideas were forged in an era temporally removed from our own, the knowledge we glean from his text is outdated and ineffective. Who, then, should students of strategy depend on to shape their strategic thinking? Sun Tzu, of course.

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ADP 3-0: A Theory of War Disconnected from Operational Art

SWJED — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 13:08:22 +0000

ADP 3-0: A Theory of War Disconnected from Operational Art SWJED Fri, 11/04/2016 - 9:08am

A great source of frustration when reading current US Army doctrine, specifically ADP 3-0 Unified Land Operations, is the lack of a definitive characterization of the theory of war and warfare.