Word: clausewitzian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maneuvering the bill toward Senate passage through an obstacle course of conservative opposition and a labyrinth of parliamentary rules was a Clausewitzian tactical feat executed by a most improbable general-Minority Leader Everett Dirksen. Long opposed to open-housing legislation, Dirksen lately reversed his field and joined up with the Republican-Democratic liberal coalition (TIME, March...
...most modern military technology. Its firepower is delivered largely by missiles, aircraft and missile-armed submarines. All of the knockout punch is thermonuclear and aimed by the most advanced intelligence and command techniques, undoubtedly including spy satellites and pushbuttons. It sounds like Armageddon Physicist Herman Kahn in his current Clausewitzian study, On Escalation: Metaphors and Scenarios, argues that high-intensity war has a rationale. He identifies 44 stages of escalation, ranging from "Ostensible Crisis," in which no bridges are burned (Rung 1), through "Constrained Force-Reduction Salvo against weak links at the outbreak of a war" (Rung 35) to "Spasm...