Clausewitz and Small Wars: The Conceptual Origins of the ‘Remarkable Trinity’

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Notes

¹ Carl von Clausewitz, On War Indexed edition Edited and Translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret (Princeton: Princeton UP 1984).

² Mary Kaldor, Old and New Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era (Stanford: Stanford UP 1999); Martin Van Creveld, The Transformation of War (New York: The Free Press 1991); John Keegan, A History of Warfare (New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1993).

³ Major C.E. Callwell, Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice (H.M.S.O., 1906).

⁴ Small Wars Manual: United States Marine Corps 1940 With an introduction by Ronald Schaffer (Manhattan, KS: Sunflower Press, reprint); Sir Charles Gwynn, Imperial Policing (London: MacMillan 1939).

⁵ John A. Nagl, Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam (University of Chicago Press 2002); David Galula, Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice (Greenwood Press 1964); FM 3–24 MCWP 3–33.5 Counterinsurgency (Headquarters Department of the Army, December 2006); http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/Repository/Materials/COIN-FM3–24.pdf

⁶ On War, 141.

⁷ Clausewitz on Small War Edited and Translated by Christopher Daase and James W. Davis (Oxford: Oxford UP 2015), 5.

⁸ On War, 89.

⁹ On War, 384.

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Timothy D. Hoyt

Professor Timothy D. Hoyt holds the John Nicholas Brown Chair for Counterterrorism Studies. His recent publications include studies on the war on terrorism in South Asia, the limits of military force in the global war on terrorism, the impact of culture on military doctrine and strategy, military innovation and warfare in the developing world, the US–Pakistan relations, and the impact of nuclear weapons on recent crises in South Asia. He is the author of Military Industries and Regional Defense Policy: India, Iraq and Israel, and over 40 articles and chapters on international security and military affairs.