Limited War In A Revolutionary Setting Application Of Clausewitzs Principles In The Vietnam Conflict
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Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 2002 |
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The United States failed to consider Clausewitz's principles for the relationship between the political and military objectives in a war while North Vietnam gave primacy to the political objective, ensuring all other efforts supported it. The strategy adopted by the Johnson administration to wage the Vietnam War failed to provide clear objectives to govern the military action. Gradual response allowed the North Vietnamese time to adapt to changes enacted by the American forces. By the Tet Offensive in 1968, American public opinion and portions of the government would no longer support the war and sought an end of United States involvement in South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese realized they faced a superior enemy and utilized tactics that countered the American way of war. The primary goal and focus of the North Vietnamese effort remained the political objective throughout the war and all other action (military, psychological, economic, and diplomatic) supported the accomplishment of this goal.
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Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 1994 |
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America's limited war theory, which provided the intellectual justification and guide for the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, suffered from all the flaws which Clausewitz had seen in such abstract approaches to war 130 years earlier. Misled by the apparent rationalist perfection of its theory, U.S. leaders failed to understand that a war of limited objectives and means is only possible when both sides are willing to restrict means. They could not understand this because their theory did not admit the role of passion and will in driving a people's effort in war. This paper will discuss the series of errors in strategic thinking that flowed from this fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of war, and which led to the United States' loss of the Vietnam War. First, the U.S. did not recognize that the true Clausewitzian "center of gravity" in Vietnam was essentially political: the will of the people to resist the Communist insurgency, a will the United States could not create or substitute for by military action. The United States thus chose a military objective - defeat of the North Vietnamese Army - when it became clear that Saigon was losing its grip on the country in 1965. Second, having engaged the North Vietnamese, U.S. leadership did not understand the role of moral factors in determining the amount of forces which North Vietnam and the Viet Cong would field and which the United States would have to match. Totally committed to victory in the South, the North Vietnamese continued to up the ante. Third, the United States, seeking a military solution to a political problem, used the military as a political tool rather than directing it to a clear military objective, thereby increasing the cost of the war. Having lost control of the cost of the war, the United States leadership lost the war because it lost the support of the American people.
Author | : Donald Stoker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2022-05-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1009220888 |
How can you achieve victory in war if you don't have a clear idea of your political aims and a vision of what victory means? In this provocative challenge to US political aims and strategy, Donald Stoker argues that America endures endless wars because its leaders no longer know how to think about war, particularly wars fought for limited aims, taking the nation to war without understanding what they want or valuing victory and thus the ending of the war. He reveals how flawed ideas on so-called 'limited war' and war in general evolved against the backdrop of American conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. These ideas, he shows, undermined America's ability to understand, wage, and win its wars, and to secure peace. Now fully updated to incorporate the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, Why America Loses Wars dismantles seventy years of misguided thinking and lays the foundations for a new approach to the wars of tomorrow.
Author | : Andreas Herberg-Rothe |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2007-03-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0191607061 |
Blending detailed contextual analysis with issues in modern-day international relations this book provides a major new analysis of the theory of Clausewitz and its relevance to contemporary society. This book argues that Clausewitz developed a wide-ranging political theory of war by reflecting on the success, the limitations, and the failure of Napoleon's method of waging war, a theory, which is still relevant in light of contemporary conflict. This new interpretation is the result of reflecting on Clausewitz's theory in light of the new developments and lays down the foundation of a general theory of war by concentrating on Clausewitz's historical analyses of war campaigns. For the first time analysis of three paradigmatic military campaigns is placed at the centre of understanding surrounding Clausewitz's 'On War': The author argues that the limitations of Napoleon's strategy, as revealed in Russia and in his final defeat, enabled Clausewitz to develop a general theory of war. This book is a project of the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.
Author | : Hew Strachan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2007-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199232024 |
The volume considers Clausewitz's timeless On War against the background of actual armed conflict. With scholars from a range of disciplines and countries, it throws new light on a classic text and contemporary issues.
Author | : Mao Tse-tung |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2012-03-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0486119572 |
The first documented, systematic study of a truly revolutionary subject, this 1937 text remains the definitive guide to guerrilla warfare. It concisely explains unorthodox strategies that transform disadvantages into benefits.
Author | : Carl von Clausewitz |
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Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1843 |
Genre | : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 |
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Author | : Sun Tzu |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 1024 |
Release | : 2000-02-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0375754776 |
Two classic works of military strategy that shaped the way we think about warfare: The Art of War by Sun Tzu and On War by Karl von Clausewitz, together in one volume “Civilization might have been spared much of the damage suffered in the world wars . . . if the influence of Clausewitz’s On War had been blended with and balanced by a knowledge of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War.”—B. H. Liddel Hart For two thousand years, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War has been the indispensable volume of warcraft. Although his work is the first known analysis of war and warfare, Sun Tzu struck upon a thoroughly modern concept: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” Karl von Clausewitz, the canny military theorist who famously declared that war is a continuation of politics by other means, also claims paternity of the notion “total war.” On War is the magnum opus of the era of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars. Now these two great minds come together in a single volume that also features an introduction by esteemed military writer Ralph Peters and the Modern Library War Series introduction by Caleb Carr, New York Times bestselling author of The Alienist. (The cover and text refer to The Art of War as The Art of Warfare, an alternate translation of the title.)
Author | : Geoffrey F. Weiss |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 890 |
Release | : 2021-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108943810 |
Many of war's lethal failures are attributable to ignorance caused by a dearth of contemporary, accessible theory to inform warfighting, strategy, and policy. To remedy this problem, Colonel Geoffrey F. Weiss offers an ambitious new survey of war's nature, character, and future in the tradition of Sun Tzu and Clausewitz. He begins by melding philosophical and military concepts to reveal war's origins and to analyze war theory's foundational ideas. Then, leveraging science, philosophy, and the wisdom of war's master theorists, Colonel Weiss presents a genuinely original framework and lexicon that characterizes and clarifies the relationships between humanity, politics, strategy, and combat; explains how and why war changes form; offers a methodology for forecasting future war; and ponders the permanence of war as a human activity. The New Art of War is an indispensable guide for understanding human conflict that will change how we think and communicate about war.
Author | : Carl Von Clausewitz |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2014-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781496115959 |
On War is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the work's first appearance in 1832, it has been read throughout the world, and has stimulated generations of soldiers, statesmen, and intellectuals.