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Carl von Clausewitz understood philosophically and viscerally the wicked, non-linear complexity of unbridled passions, mass violence and rational use of capabilities to pursue strategic goals that is the inescapable condition of international affairs in diplomacy and war.
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To defeat the Islamic State Obama needs Clausewitz, not Alinsky

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President Obama speaks on the phone to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah from his desk at the White House Wednesday, ahead of his address to the nation tonight regarding Iraq and ISIS group militants. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Conditions stalk Obama’s uncertain coalition

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Riffs on President Obama's
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Obama’s Re-WOT (revived war on terror)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during Russian-Mongolian talks at the State Palace in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, on Wednesday. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky)
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Vladimir Putin’s goal is to reconstruct a ‘Greater Russia’

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Major Gen. Lucian K. Truscott Jr. is photographed in June 1944 during World War II at an unknown location. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)
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The Allies Invade Southern France: Seaports and a Race up the Rhone

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Islamic State’s murderous excess is the road to its demise
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Islamic State’s murderous excess is the road to its demise

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A man watches from a jetty as a Mistral-class French amphibious warship docks on the Neva River in downtown St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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Sell French warships to NATO, not Russia

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German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany in his field uniform during World War I, shown in this undated photo. (AP Photo)
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The July Crisis of 1914 echoes the modern phrase ‘leading from behind’

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Ultimate responsibility for the massacre of the 298 people aboard Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 begins and ends in the Kremlin office of Russian president Vladimir Putin. (AP/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky)
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Penalize Vladimir Putin and his culpable Kremlin

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The Iron Dome defense system fires to intercept an incoming missiles from Gaza in the port town of Ashdod, Israel. Israel's military has deployed Iron Dome defense system to the north of the country following Israeli airstrikes in neighboring Syria targeting weapons believed to be destined for Lebanon's Hezbollah militants. (AP Photo /Tsafrir Abayov)
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Israeli Iron Dome demonstrates missile defense payoffs

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