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On War (was Dragaera in Penny Arcade!)

Jon_Lincicum at stream.com Jon_Lincicum at stream.com
Thu Jun 15 11:27:30 PDT 2006

"Davdi Silverrock" <davdisil at gmail.com> 
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>On 6/15/06, Jon_Lincicum at stream.com <Jon_Lincicum at stream.com> wrote:
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>> http://www.clausewitz.com/CWZHOME/Quotations.html
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>I have always been certain that most (if not all) of the military
>aphorisms and comments in /Dragon/ came from Clausewitz, because,
>after all, that is exactly what Steve confessed to reading, presumably
>for research for that very book.
>
>  http://dreamcafe.com/books.html

Indeed.

Clausewitz is a good read; but it's a historical irony that many of his 
practical points, while accurate right at the time he wrote them,  would 
become obsolete very shortly afterwards. (World War I changed a lot of the 
tactical practices of war, if not the fundamental concepts). 

He's a very good resource for the kind of battles we see in the Vlad 
books, however, and the fundmental principles of war don't really change 
very much.

Sun Tzu is more timeless, if a bit less practical.

Majikjon