James Carafano: War spending is not frivolous spending

By James Jay Carafano
Published November 30, 2009 5:00am ET
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He witnessed his nation humiliated in war. He vowed it would never happen again.

Carl von Clausewitz served as the young aide-de-camp to Prince August Ferdinand of Prussia. At the battles of Jena-Auerstedt (1806), he stood by as Napoleon’s forces obliterated the once-proud legions of Frederick the Great.

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