grand-strategy,-part-i-–-j.r.-nyquist
https://jrnyquist.blog/2021/03/06/grand-strategy-part-i/
NOTES AND LINKS
J.F.C. Fuller, Armaments and History, p. 182.
Carl von Clausewitz, Strategy, p. 27 and later, p. 109.
Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996), p. 28-32.
Carl von Clausewitz, On War, Book I, Chapter 2. (Anatol Rapoport translation, Penguin Classics paperback.)
Hitler’s Table Talk, 1941-1944: His Private Conversations: Adolf Hitler, Norman Cameron, R. H. Stevens, H. R. Trevor-Roper, H. R. Trevor-Roper: 9781929631056: Amazon.com: Books
Uyghur Genocide in China: Here Are The Facts You Need To Know (westernjournal.com)
Hitler had a crazy plan for Moscow: to kill all its residents & replace it with a lake (thevintagenews.com)
Stalin: Breaker of Nations – Wikipedia
Richard M. Weaver, The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver (Indianapolis: LibertyPress, 1987), p. 166, 168-169
J.F.C. Fuller, The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant (London: 1929).
B.H. Liddell Hart, Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American (New York, 1929)
Igor Shafarevich, The Socialist Phenomenon (USA: Gideon House Books, 2019) , p. 306.
Eric Voegelin, Science, Politics and Gnosticism (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1968), p. 19.
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovnovich, 1951), Vol. III, p. 135.
Note to the reader: American policymakers and leading academic experts have often been clueless when it comes to Russian and Chinese grand strategy; for example, in Edward Luttwak’s Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace, his discussion of Soviet strategy is not only lacking in imagination, but completely ignores the importance of Marxism-Leninism in the formulation of Soviet grand strategy. In a section titled “Nuclear Dissuasion in Europe,” Luttwak acknowledges that NATO’s conventional forces were inadequate to the defense of Europe. Therefore, NATO had to rely on tactical nuclear munitions to stem the tide of a Soviet armored advance. He then argued that even larger NATO armies would have simply led the Soviets to build more tactical nuclear weapons of their own. He noticed, correctly, that the West’s grand strategy was “unreliable” because “dissuasion by [nuclear] punishment” was “riddled with baffling uncertainties.” But it never occurred to Luttwak that Soviet grand strategy, with its readiness to fight and win a nuclear war, was secretly preparing a way out for both sides – a way that would disarm the United States for good.
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