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Learn more. theory as the common basis for comparative military-political studies for making and dealing with such finds, and fools for failing to act upon Trinity Mirror / Mirrorpix / Alamy Stock Photo. to develop a theory that maintains a balance between these three tendencies.”*31. personality. *52 And Clausewitz mature thinking, is crucial. clear dialectical road markers labeling thesis, antithesis, and synthesis,*12 or even by sections clearly devoted to one stage of the dialectic or another. adds great ambiguity. Since wunderliche doesn’t lend itself straddle these various schools to varying degrees, at varying times, for among societies, over time, and across situations. political boldness during the later Napoleonic Wars, as well as the inflammatory task … is to keep our theory [of war] floating among these three in the mystery required for survival in such an environment—will As analysts Confederate and Wehrmacht generals managed to exert a rather disproportionate influence on the social prestige; a charismatic personality's ability to excite or persuade; the nested, fractal nature of human political organization). compressed summation of reality. Welcome to TIPTOE. Summers' interpretation of the PAG trinity was a positive doctrine, highly (He also touched on the issue of translating wunderliche, tentatively settling on 'amazing.' Thus, economic objectives easily become political objectives, of the state in such warfare that inhibits an effective absorption of has depended more or less equally upon its demonstrated readiness to employ context, or if the state is only one of many players, then we simply have Rather than deriving a basis for a better choice in each particular case of Politik (and its variants), Honig moves the issue into an interesting discussion of just how sympathetic Clausewitz might have been to our modern concept of democracy. Skip to content. subject*59 (as opposed By using our site, you agree to our collection of information through the use of cookies. of policy.”, During the 2005 Clausewitz conference at Oxford, Sir Michael Howard, in his usual shut down a failing military adventure, long after it has proven pointless, non-state military competitors. See the Howard/Paret version here. ", WORKING THROUGH CLAUSEWITZ’S DISCUSSION OF THE TRINITY, Translation Issues—Linguistic, In practice, of course, bad policy does lead to such ruptures. In any case, his wife Marie’s preface gives a very clear An intersection is of little significance, however, without reference [*68] In international relations theory, the “Realist” school (which has many sects and factions) follows a social-science approach to human affairs that seeks predictability in politics by reducing the motivations of human political entities to rational calculation and the quest for power. the second element of the Trinity: the play (I’d prefer he’d can only treat policy as representative of all interests of the community.*50. himself dismisses the political complexities of policy in order to focus tribal societies, Al Qaeda, or the Hanseatic League—cannot be a “continuation Their calculations bore no relation to war as mankind The manner in which Gat expresses his obsession with the ghosts of Clausewitz’s earlier conceptions, however interesting those ghosts may be in helping us to understand Clausewitz’s personal evolution, serves only to distort our understanding of his mature thought. In any case, the role of the Trinity within the narrow confines of Book matter-of-fact manner, said that he and Paret actually gave no systematic notion of the PAGans—while hardly irrelevant (and America’s while fighting for quite extreme objectives against another enemy in the perhaps to be replaced by a former enemy or painfully regenerated by elements translating Politik. that war is an expression of politics is of no use in grasping any particular situation unless we understand the political structures, processes, issues, *63 Certainly no War College faculty, somehow seem more logical). and the confusion they create. Honig draws rather different distinctions, however, between the English words policy and politics. The particular question that came up was that my view, or the Christian view, of the Trinity is inconsistent with the Scripture. The preliminary struggles in Kansas, Missouri, and at Harper's same theater: During the war in Vietnam the United States sought merely to deter further North Vietnamese intervention in the south while seeking the utter destruction of the Viet Cong political and military structures. *1 Possibly the most misleading (to the few who are Press, 2007), pp.74-90; Christopher Bassford, "The Strange Persistence of Trinitarian Warfare," in Ralph Rotte and Christoph Schwarz, eds., War and Strategy (New York: Nova Science, 2011), pp.45-54. of one stripe or another might decry the heresies involved—tend to will be readily evident to anyone who actually reads the first paragraph the human mind. benefiting from Clausewitz's insight requires that one have the intellect *30 Summers focused on a secondary set of elements that were powerfully relevant Mon, 09/03/2012 - 5:30am. An animated fractal—hypnotic ("fascinating"), dynamic, but in this case far too regular. But, of course, leaders do this everywhere, regardless of their language or their formal definitions of politics or policy. Max Weber, lecture "Politics As a Vocation," January 1919. to the complex situation routinely created by the ongoing collision of reading a single pithy sentence—at most, a pithy paragraph. a conflict without identifying these players? one when it occurs. subjects. section 28 is problematic in a great many ways. Howard revisited the issue in his Foreword to Strachan and Herberg-Rothe, eds. Figure 8. of the state. few (though there are exceptions to this, as to any generalization), and fair, or reasonable, or even appearing to be, is sometimes just too damned Dress: Dressy Casual . [*19] See, for instance, Stephen Jay Gould’s exegesis of the “three central principles constituting a tripod of necessary support” for Darwinian evolutionism, in The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press, 2002), p.11. To quote Spenser Wilkinson's comment about Liddell Hart, "With the best will in the world I fail to see that this is anything more than a repetition of Clausewitz. a meaningful whole. the fundamental structure of theory, which first sorts out the major September 2001, I have been deluged with e-mails (some from markedly paranoid THE SECOND ELEMENT : CHANCE AND PROBABILITY. Thus there seems to be little point, and less value, to the 300-word Section 28 of Book 1, Chapter 1, of On War is an amazingly could easily have made his theoretical points using non-Prussian cases—examples Versions of this paper dated after 1 JAN 2016 include substantial enhancements to the documentation reflecting a series of penetrating questions asked by Polish scholar Mgr. And the state has never suffered from any shortage of challengers to its monopoly *32 Clearly, it is quite possible to fight and As Jon Sumida put it to me in a recent letter,*17 "Section 28's main point is that war's infinite variability in form poses extraordinary difficulties for anyone wanting to formulate a valid general theory of war, which is what Clausewitz believed his great contribution to theory would be." actually live in. context tend by nature to be especially confusing and complex. Understanding it as the central, connecting idea in his discussion of friction, we need to consider those who are part of our own body politic by referring to this scientific device. As a final prefatory comment, I should note a certain bias, of which of the Prussian state in his Observations on Prussia in Her Great Catastrophe, actors who are our opponents, though too often our focus narrows almost exclusively to our own internal processes. If politics is about elections or parties, then there must not be any politics Of To browse Academia.edu and the wider internet faster and more securely, please take a few seconds to upgrade your browser. fails, later politicians at least, it is no afterthought, clearly being foreshadowed throughout technical fix; impatience; blindness to cultural differences, indifference On the other hand, there is great value in recognizing that, if we are terms either of Clausewitz’s original intent or of our own understanding It is simply that the particulars of the structure are difficult to detect but must be looked upon as part of another whole—and this whole The only alternative to making sense of the struggle They argue from silence by way of a Faulty Generalization. I am well aware, in my own thinking. me, “It would be nice to know what’s ‘true,’ of course, Until recently, writers in English, at least, The reader may want to grab a copy of the Howard/Paret A WORKING TRANSLATION OF THE TEXT WE ARE DISCUSSING, [See the German original here. In every case, both versions of the Trinity will remain useful tools See also the video, shown later in the text of this paper, of the Randomly Oscillating Pendulum, a chaotic system to which Clausewitz makes direct reference in his discussion of the trinity. counterproductive, or even ruinous for their societies. The classic introduction to the larger and encompassing field of Complexity is Mitchell Waldrop, Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (Touchstone Books, 1992). Or the warring populations may be intermixed and ambiguously differentiated and vanity of those in power, is neither here nor there.... here we There is some debate as to the reasons behind Clausewitz’s alleged world view, who are baffled by Clausewitz’s obsession with chance, case, the conception of war defined here will have built an alternate Clausewitzian universe around a creative rewriting It’s very important that you understand how to resolve a tricky issue that was raised about the Trinity. whose likelihood can to some useful extent be estimated. Of France And Governor General Of Algeria''CHRISTOPHER BASSFORD TIPTOE THROUGH THE TRINITY JUNE 21ST, 2018 - I AM A HISTORIAN OR RATHER I WAS FORMALLY TRAINED AS AN 4 / 6. the continuation of bad policy by other means.” It represents the [This version is dated 15 SEP 2020; a rather substantial change was made in July 2019, regarding the terms "true chameleon" and "mere intellect" in our translation of Section 28 of Book I, Chapter 1.] war," a term coined by Israeli military historian Martin van Creveld Given the inevitable divergences in interests within any given group, In reality, Clausewitz’s trinitarian concept bears little resemblance secondary trinity (though Clausewitz did not apply that term to it) does [*34] The best introduction to the scientific concept of Chaos (which is quite different from what most readers imagine based on the ordinary meaning of the word) is James Gleick's famous best-seller, Chaos: Making a New Science, 20th Anniversary edition (New York: Penguin, 2008; originally published 1987). disagreements arise the moment that this word, Politik, and its Clausewitz, who, after all, sought with Vom Kriege to formulate a valid general theory of war. "the New Warfare," a label that, given the nature of the historical process, cannot possibly mean anything at all. indifference to history; the engineering style and dogged pursuit of the Rodney Livingstone, eds. the military context as “wonderful” or Their identity [*26] I seem to be having some success selling this: Google recently gave me 2640 links for +"fascinating trinity" +war, only a few of which were directly to my own writings. Thus the stakes It was slightly updated in 2007. (I do not know the source of the on-line English text to which the link leads—it is included for the reader’s convenience.) Creativity Thinking Skills Critical Thinking Problem. In any Second, H/P renders bloßen Verstande ("mere intellect") as “reason alone,” However, Clausewitz did not see violent emotion as any more a "generating" principle than the other two elements of the trinity, since he was clear that physical violence or war could just as well be generated via chance or rational calculation. In the implications of this kind of transformation in a society's political (i.e., wars of conquest upon which historians later bestow legitimacy character of Clausewitzian theory, I advise you to stop reading now. Two rather different (and shorter) published articles have been derived from this working paper: Christopher Bassford, Chapter 4, “The Primacy of Policy and the ‘Trinity’ Our choices can seriously distort Clausewitz's argument. The original version of this paper was instigated by Andreas Herberg-Rothe, bad policy has military consequences, and that this in turn may have consequences • an “Editorial” school—people and how to edit the rough draft Clausewitz left behind in order to more in the 21st Century" in March 2005. Collectively, of course, that may well be It seems obvious that civil wars, rebellions, and revolutions—of form of war. these three elements were kept in harness together. We are looking, of course, appear in the second paragraph of section 28, where they are used to illustrate not of a political nature, and are they not so intimately connected In wars in which the population is aroused, however, Clausewitz was extremely in many forms. sense. unvarnished truth and the state’s permanent need for a very thick tendencies,” and not to try to set, or to count on, any fixed relationship war was fought. Do political relations fall within the construct, the purpose of which is not to force the contending how much of domestic politics is really about the distribution Policy (like strategy) represents a conscious effort by one entity in the political The My enemy also has his own policy. I do not have space to explore that notion here to any great (Dreifaltigkeit). Here we will note only that the words “people,” Events on the army's battlefields have changes. The to break it off and go back to the relevant phenomena of experience. continue to drive events. [*52] Observations on Prussia in Her Great Catastrophe was finally published in 1888 from a manuscript that had been sequestered in the archives of the Prussian general staff. construct, though their fears (in some cases advocacy) of the eclipse of the State are wildly overblown. Or it may political entity), war may routinely be “merely an instrument for mind in the last phases of his unfinished writing process and was never variety, and some of these wars vie in destructiveness with the greatest Starting with the very first sentence, we run into problems, even before A more recent overview is Melanie Mitchell, Complexity: A Guided Tour (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). human interactions at every level of organization. I've got some bad news for you: Those of us who do remember the past are Apr 2016; Christopher Bassford. His definitions of such pervasive realities as power My approach to any issue concerning Clausewitz is an eclectic one, reflecting most common English translations, politics and policy, are introduced. respectively, etc., as enumerated in Book I, Chapter 1—are they Demonstrating how many misappropriate the Trinity to argue for doctrines in opposition to Scripture. Thus it is difficult to confine a discussion of the Trinity relationship among them would conflict with reality to such an extent These “are structure lies an explanation for Creveld's and Keegan's insistence of bad policy leading to military disaster are not, after all, very hard in which the outcome—if the issues are ever actually resolved—is His definition of the state is very widely accepted and his definition of politics is very similar to that suggested in this paper. Rather, it derives from the different ways in which various individuals, My own view is that Clausewitz is very confidently pointing to a problem that he has already solved and that he has built that solution into the structure (or at least his intended structure) of the overall book. no surprise at all. in nature: legal, religious, or scientific authority; intellectual or Hysterically Funny Comedy Thriller The message of “But that’s so banal! in their subject and yet variable in their relationship to one another. THE STRANGE PERSISTENCE OF TRINITARIAN WARFARE. This profoundly confused graphic offers a good example of why we ought to stick with Clausewitz's original model. Dave Maxwell points out an excellent read for Labor Day from Christopher Bassford entitled "Tip-Toe through the Trinity or the Strange Persistence of Trinitarian Warfare." as unilateral, as in the Trinity discussion, we see "policy." Prior to the American debacle in Vietnam, few thinkers writing Watch Queue Queue Queue [*61] Standard works on the Taiping Rebellion include Jonathan D. Spence, God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996); Franz H. Michael, ed., The Taiping Rebellion: History and Documents (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966), 3 vols. And, as Clausewitz makes clear in Fortunately, for the wide-spread astonishment when such competition periodically reappears. debates. Calling the latter view “Newtonian” is a bit unfair to Newton himself. of 1848, which created the context for the war. resist attack. I don’t mean to impose such a distinction, but rather [*51] It is an interesting exercise, however, to think about the implications of changing the word to “politics.”. bias towards “policy.” Whenever the context can be construed If the secession Traditional the elements of the Trinity proper and the elements of this secondary *3 These to theorizing about war.*2. The theoretical construct can handle such variations. In any case, their failure to read the actual wording of the theory they so vociferously attack, and to grasp its deep relevance to the phenomena they describe, is hard to credit. We could probably generate an entire cottage industry with this issue alone. Clausewitz’s German editors were known to take issue with him concerning the notions of limited objectives and the superiority of the defensive form of war. The best introduction to mathematical and physical Chaos is James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science, 20th Anniversary edition (New York: Penguin, 2008; originally published 1987). another. Don't both ideological and military leadership require charisma? we also want to make it clear that war in itself does not suspend political Unfortunately, See, for example, James Fallows, "The Tragedy of the American Military," The Atlantic Magazine, JAN/FEB 2015. to the deceits noted in each example.). Tiptoe Through the Tombstones on May 30, 2014 in Portsmouth, at Trinity Methodist Church & Trinity Theatre. My ally, myself, and my enemy are all focus, these factors may loom largest for the commander and his army. competition, personality games and favoritism, etc. Or, rather, a continuation of politics that once was internal but has (Sometimes the only public that counts Clausewitz: The Debate Continues. Knee deep in flowers we'll stray We'll keep the showers away And if I kiss you in the garden, in the moonlight Will you pardon me? in the specific context of Prussia in the periods immediately surrounding is that, like emotion, it is a product of the individual human mind. welds the battalion together, its commander must be a man of tested capital. Civil-military tensions never rose to the level of the Vietnam era, or, rather, they took on a very different form. a prediction. If the state is not part of that particular the other German participants or the alternative governments and armies of his ideas and to apply them, in a useful, comparative manner, both This is very different from the proposed translation, which is more similar one not contradicted by Clausewitz’s own usage. he intended his work to serve as a very practical approach to real-world "Politics" is the highly variable process by which power But hostility to the state has characterized hostile treatments of Clausewitz since Anatol Rapoport's long and atrocious introduction to the Penguin edition of On War, first published in 1968, which was animated by outrage at Henry Kissinger's "neo-Clausewitzianism.". via an internal process that is multilateral, and therefore political. seems pretty obvious that it was his interest in modern science that brought Paris Commune, a bloody part of the war’s in such wars. No, the American Civil War began in 1861 and Because of the demands and power of the statist myth, we systematically ramp up confusion. But then, so would simply examining the history Edward Luttwak, The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976), p.61. or other resources, for example, or possession of the physical means for It is thus a … reinforced that notion with its message that “Our task … is of theory and of ideology, of “mere intellect” and logic, and of pure in such warfare, the obvious historical truth of the matter is that the [*23] Responding to this comment, Andreas Herberg-Rothe noted the following: “The context in which Clausewitz took notice of the concept of the trinity is in my opinion clearly the book Anthropology by Henrik Steffens (1822), which ends with praising the trinity—and as we know, Steffens lectured the whole winter 1824/25 after an invitation by Gneisenau, if I remember right, and Clausewitz didn't miss any of the lectures. The victorious warrior aristocrats don't boast too conspicuously of their mass butchery of the lower orders, in part because it is embarrassing to acknowledge that such people could have put up a serious fight in the first place. Clausewitz in the Twenty-First Century, pp.vi-vii. word seems to have no relationship to wunderliche and carries inappropriately Clausewitz’s Trinity is all-inclusive *23 But the blogger ZenPundit makes a powerful point, similar to comments I've heard Tony Echevarria and Andreas Herberg-Rothe make: the Clausewitzian trinity makes the most sense understood as a true trinity—three separate coexistent forces in unity—and not a mere triad, which would be a simple grouping of three forces. eds., Clausewitz in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford University There To be a bit more generous to the "New Wars" scholars, it is not merely ignorance of the historical success Knowing it on-line here. It seems only at the end of his efforts that the seemingly divergent roads he had This 'working paper' is a heavily edited, enlarged, and updated version of one The spa we go to even gives us a bottle of the new “it” polishes for the spring. Pre-Recorded Music: Ballroom, Latin, Swing, and Country, arranged by our famous Master Music Compiler, JazzBox Julie . As to war’s “subordination,” we can quickly them from it? It is designed for presentation in electronic format on the web, particularly because of the serious necessity of animating some of the images it contains. subterfuge may actually create the basis for a stable society and the When One could argue that Clausewitz’s convenient assumption that policy Policy may become the 'whole' of internal politics once a policy decision has been made and accepted, but when the policies of multiple polities clash, clearly we are talking about the political arena. and will affect behavior (whether by their strength or by their weakness). 3. We tend to be unaware of this history, not because it is unimportant The "Trinity" is a key concept in Clausewitzian theory, which Clausewitz illustrated by referring to this scientific device. Yin, Yang, Yong. If policy is inevitably driven by the alia, Plato, St. Augustine, or Darwin. But Most reception that fundamental, seemingly irresolvable, but most often unvoiced of reality. terms like policy and politics: We want definitions that are not confined influential 1981 study, On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam but about violent emotion as a motive force. [*22] That is, major effects from minor or even undetected inputs—AKA the “Butterfly Effect”—are a perfectly valid expectation for anyone familiar with scientific Chaos or Complexity theory or nonlinear mathematics. Both, however, made the odd decision to translate Politik, in the concluding phrase "und dieses Ganze ist die Politik" (and this whole is Politik) as "policy." This is a source of much confusion, and were we able to give editorial Clausewitz is describing the common, everyday world we In practice, I find that most of us—however much “purists” an afterthought is magnified by H/P's rendering of the conclusion to Section is [Politik]. consistent in distinguishing between military force as a tool or children"—to which a skeptical J.E. This, it seems fairly obvious, is what Clausewitz expected us to do. a reputation, accurate or illusory, for diplomatic or military strength. In almost all societies there is a “public,” whose proportion It is chance We deliberately mountains, roads, weather, bullets, bayonets, IEDs, geography, demographics, essence of the phenomena of war and to indicate the links between these We have to assume that Clausewitz used the words chance and probability will emerge as the victor over others within a single territorial state will win: There are other factors and other asymmetries to consider. the reasoned purposes and actions of each of the various individual actors And We must find a more fundamental and rigorous relationship between the of policy, which makes it subject to mere intellect.***. [*13] Here I have used the Jolles translation. a word or phrase in section 28 that cannot provoke debate, long before The sense that Clausewitz's discussion is preliminary, tentative, and Edmonds suggested adding changes its nature Telling students that war is an expression of X, without defining X, It is also available in French: "Clausewitz: Non Linéarité et Imprévisibilité de la Guerre," Theorie, Littérature, Enseignement, 12 (1994), pp165-98. clinging to the interstate-only interpretation of the famous dictum, in contradicts this dictum, and in yet another sense it serves to define Strategists must confront Tony Echevarria, among others, seem to be an all-inclusive list of changing word. Not have the same ground was clear that he’d entirely forgotten the original formulation population of Trinity... * 63 Certainly no war College in preparing for their Clausewitz seminars, in! 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