Why we should keep teaching Clausewitz

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“I will weep for thee,” Professor Tom Nichols and Dr. Jamie Schwandt, “For this revolt of thine me thinks is like another fall of man.”

Okay, I exaggerate. Nichols and Schwandt aren’t quite Shakespearean heirs to the Southampton rebellion, but I disagree with their call to limit/end military instruction on the theories of Carl Von Clausewitz. Clausewitz was a 19th century Prussian general and military strategist who has long been taught in military schools across the western world. Here’s what Nichols had to say about Schwandt’s article.

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