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Strategic Studies Quarterly Fall 2007[ 116 ] Busting the IconRestoring Balance to the Influence of ClausewitzPhillip S. MeilingerIf you train a man for war alone you are automatically training him for murder; but if you claim, in all sincerity, that you are training him to preserve peace you must train him to be a human being. Col-Gen Klaus Kahlenberge1 Many US military thinkers and practitioners have embraced a view of war that is out of touch with current circumstances and, consequently, dan-gerous. This has a direct effect on the present global war on terror that is focused largely on Islamic extremists. There are two main problems. First, US military leaders especially in the ground forces continue to view war as a climactic, and usually bloody, clash of arms. Muddy boots and bloody bayonets and occupation of territory are the liturgies of these people, a maxim that current operations in Iraq against Muslim terrorists have shown to be increasingly bankrupt.
Busting the Icon Strategic Studies Quarterly ♦Fall 2007 [ 117 ] We need to broaden our thinking. Clausewitz was a Prussian general who …
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