We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/apropos_burying_clausewitz.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:48:04 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Ori Brafman offers a different take on the subject - supportive of throwing over Clausewitz, but with a different analogy: Spiders versus Starfish. Cut off a spider's leg, and you'll have a seven-legged cripple. Cut off its head, and you'll kill the spider. But cut off the starfish's arm, and not only will it regenerate, but the severed arm will actually grow an entirely new body. Starfish can achieve this remarkable feat because, unlike spiders, they lack central control—their organs are replicated across each arm. Starfish are decentralized. Just like in nature, there are also starfish on the battlefield. Starfish... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/apropos_burying_clausewitz.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/apropos_burying_clausewitz.html Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:25:46 -0600 Make the new starfish enemy of the original. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/apropos_burying_clausewitz.html#comment-50967 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/apropos_burying_clausewitz.html#comment-50967 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:24:22 -0600 madrassa in the Middle East to a meeting with Allah... ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/apropos_burying_clausewitz.html#comment-50956 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2006/09/apropos_burying_clausewitz.html#comment-50956 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:21:47 -0600