Winning war requires knowing enemy, gaining international support
By Marshall Brement | September 25, 2001IN HIS masterpiece, "On War," Karl von Clausewitz declared that "the first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither mistaking it for, nor trying to turn it into, something that is alien to its true nature.
