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Posted on Mar 6, 2008 in History News

Without national will, wars are doomed

Jim H. Moreno

Without national will, wars are doomed (Western Courier)

Once again, elected officials, commanders and even the American people have forgotten what history taught us about the strategic value of the national will. Prussian general and renowned military theorist Carl Von Clausewitz called attention to these moral factors or factors of the national will more than 170 years ago in his magnum opus, "On War."