Sean, thank you very much for a great lecture! As an officer I benefited greatly. Really very few people understand On war, especially in post-Soviet countries. Thank you for illuminating certain dark spots. Respect from Azerbaijan.

This is a great lecture, the only thing I took issue with was your comment at 53:55. Napoleon went to military school at Brienne at 15 and after graduating here studied at that École militaire which at the time was seen as the most prostigious military academy in France.

It really is a trait of many Germans that they can't even describe a razor to you without going all the way back to the Middle Ages or making comparisons with modern mowing technology. Hegel is really the worst of all and I really warn all non-Germans not to try to understand him. By the way, Friedrich Engels, the buddy of Karl Marx, was deeply impressed by Clausewitz's "On War", which is an absolute rarity for this arrogant intellectual-in-chief. In Clausewitz's work, one can really learn something about the dialectical method in a very clear and understandable way, which otherwise, applied to historical or social processes, often remains abstract and incomprehensible. Example: May I smoke while praying? Priest: No, never! May I pray while smoking? Priest: Yes, absolutely! Look, this is dialectics!

@theCollectiveEU

7 ай бұрын

😂 that was fun to read. No offence taken, you are totally right

Thank you for posting this, I needed additional help in understanding these two for my course. Know I understand.

I enjoyed your lecture very much. Your application of the various theories of war to actions by state and non state actors raised for me the question what counts as victory, Living as I do in Ireland I was mentally applying the Clausewitz and Mao theories to Irish wars in the modern period, both the Civil War and the more recent IRA campaigns. Ultimately Politics won the day in both contexts. War is politics by other means.

Thank you for posting this sir! This is terrific video.

Thank you. The youtube algorithmn should really promote such great content much better.

Thank you for this presentation! I was reading Strategy, A History by Lawrence Freedman, and he mentioned these 2 but never went into detail what exactly their writings were about!

@Nikola-iy7mk

Жыл бұрын

haha whats up bro :D

Amazing video.. thank you so much. Having seen this video after reading your book gave me a much better perspective. I request if you can make a video on Arthashastra and its relevance as I feel that text is really at the strategic level as we know it today.

Good review for me after having just studied ILE phase 2.

The history of philosophy stuff here was pretty confused: epistemology is in Critique of Pure Reason, (the c of practical reason is about ethics), Plato was absolutely very important pre-enlightenment for the scholastics, so he's more associated *with* the catholic church than a break from it, the rediscovery of arabic versions of greek sources occurs in the rennaisance, a lot earlier than all the early modern philosphers you're talking about, etc.

Awesome ; thank you sir

marshal ney also helped jomini publish his work

Good discussion, but just to let you know, Hegel never used construct of "Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis." You're thinking of the philosopher Fichte who developed the dialectical method of thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis."

the thesis-antithesis-synthesis model is not from Hegel - its one of teh most misattributed aspects regarding what people think of hegel - a but like Clausewitz, hegel is widely known but little read. Fichte and Kant referred more to that thesis-antithese idea, though i am not sure they used at as any kind of "method" . Hegels had other triads such as abstract-negative-concrete which was not a analytical method at all, but a desrcibing a movement to understanding in consciousness i believe.

Why did clautwitz replace henry jomini in the 20th century?

these two learned too well in the time of war in europe

I didn't realize Paul Lynde taught military strategy.

But the Maginot line… worked. It gave the French an enormous advantage along about the German border. The Germans, of course, attacked through Luxemburg and Belgium instead, but the French failure to plan for that wasn’t the Maginot line’s fault.

@alexdipaola4316

7 ай бұрын

Do you think it's plausible that France could have fortified every possible German attack path to the same degree?

They supposedly used 20,000 Russian soldiers to film it. The Producer who made this also made all the Monster Movies.

I wish he would pronounce Clausewitz correctly

i feel like it was revived due to culture and the invincibility of the germans like how they easily conquered everyone kind of thing like how people today glorify their techs which are actually subpar meh

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