Introduction Of all the martial concepts that Carl von Clausewitz discussed in On War, his treatise on military strategy, perhaps the most widely adopted was his model for depicting an enemy’s primary source of strength: the center of gravity (COG). To this day, the COG model remains enshrined in the …

“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.” Patton’s remark, while it had not advanced the study of war by any measure, stated what had been the objectives of military commanders of history: …

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