Karlin, Mara
The return of total war: Understanding—and preparing for—a new era of comprehensive conflict - Foreign Affairs - 103(6), Nov-Dec, 2024: p.8-19
Every age had its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions, and its own peculiar preconceptions,” the defense theorist Carl von Clausewitz wrote in the early nineteenth century. There is no doubt that Clausewitz was right. And yet it is surprisingly difficult to characterize war at any given moment in time; doing so becomes easier only with hindsight. Harder still is predicting what kind of war the future might bring. When war changes, the new shape it takes almost always comes as a surprise.- Reproduced
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/return-total-war-karlin
The return of total war: Understanding—and preparing for—a new era of comprehensive conflict - Foreign Affairs - 103(6), Nov-Dec, 2024: p.8-19
Every age had its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions, and its own peculiar preconceptions,” the defense theorist Carl von Clausewitz wrote in the early nineteenth century. There is no doubt that Clausewitz was right. And yet it is surprisingly difficult to characterize war at any given moment in time; doing so becomes easier only with hindsight. Harder still is predicting what kind of war the future might bring. When war changes, the new shape it takes almost always comes as a surprise.- Reproduced
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/return-total-war-karlin