Daily Archives: April 3, 2013

Free Media Learning Opportunity: Clausewitz & On War

Original Blog, StrategyBy admin April 3, 2013 Leave a comment

The excellent radio program on BBC4, In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg, covered Clausewitz’s On War on 12 May 2012. I almost can’t say enough about the value of this 43 minute recording, but here are a couple snippets that might give away the quality of the scholarship:

Let’s learn from the Iraq War, not fight over figures

Lowy Interpreter, Original Blog, StrategyBy admin April 3, 2013 Leave a comment

***Another post over at the Lowy Interpreter on the Iraq War: I think Rodger Shanahan is taking the Interpreter’s distinguished readers on a bit of a wild-goose chase with the Iraq War violence figures. They’re important, but frankly there will never be a solid set of numbers on which we can objectively agree are correct. This…