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Ep. 28 - On War | Carl Von Clausewitz
Finneran's Wake
English - October 11, 2021 02:01 - 41 minutes - 56.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMental Health Health & Fitness Arts Books conversations interviews news politics books education classics history philosophy literature Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
"War is simply a continuation of political intercourse, with the addition of other means". Those last two words, "other means", have always left me feeling somewhat uneasy. Is it not, after all, a kind of euphemism, a gentle phrase more agreeable to sensitive ears, behind which all the horrors of war--all the carnage, bloodshed, conquest, death, and loss--are too neatly concealed? Perhaps. But we mustn't forget, war is nothing more than a instrument of policy. An especially lethal one, it may well be, but it's an instrument nonetheless.