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This 6 page paper discusses the views of war held by Antoine-Henri Jomini and Carl von Clausewitz and argues that they are surprisingly similar; it also explains some of Clausewitz’s metaphors and what he would think of General Mac Arthur’s comment that there is “no substitute for victory.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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on war; considers Clausewitzs metaphors about war; and what he would say about General MacArthurs statement, "There is no substitute for victory." Discussion This paper is too short to do
more than compare the two superficially and note some points of difference. The best place to do this is in their definition of what war is. Jomini says that the
art of war has "five principal parts, viz.: Strategy, Grand Tactics, Logistics, Tactics of the different arms, and the Art of the Engineer."1 He argues that when war is first
declared, a general "commences with the points of the highest importance, as a plan of campaign, and afterward descends to the necessary details," whereas tactics begin with the details and
"ascends to combinations and generalization necessary for the formation and handling of a great army."2 He goes on to describe how the general will order the battlefield, by taking a
"first objective point" and then selecting the "line of operations leading to this point, either as a temporary or permanent line, giving it the most advantageous direction; namely, that which
promises the greatest number of favorable opportunities with the least danger."3 An army that marches on this line will have two fronts, operations and strategic; if the army occupies temporary
positions along this line, they will be "strategic positions."4 When the army meets the enemy, it will either attack or maneuver so that the enemy is compelled to retreat; in
order to do this, it will adopt "one or two strategic lines of maneuvers, which, being temporary, may deviate to a certain degree from the general line of operations, with
which they must not be confounded."5 As the army advances, it will be necessary to establish supply depots along the line; when the army is close to its objective, if
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