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| Titel: |
Long defensives: Victory without compellence |
| Auteur: |
Klein, Yitzhak |
| Verschenen in: |
Comparative strategy |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 15 (1996) nr. 3 pagina's 233-249 |
| Jaar: |
1996-07 |
| Inhoud: |
Carl von Clausewitz maintained that victory in serious wars, as opposed to wars for limited objectives, can be achieved only by use of the offensive to destroy the enemy's fighting power; that is, by compellence. This view contradicted another of von Clausewitz's observations: that the defensive is the stronger form of war. By establishing a ratio of exchange in the defender's favor, the defensive can eat up the enemy's resolve to continue the war no less effectively than by beating it in an offensive hauptschlacht, even though it may take more time. Three cases are examined in this article in which the strategy of the “long defensive” produced victory for the side that suffered from considerable strategic disadvantages: the Dutch wars of independence, the wars of Frederick the Great, and the Arab-Israeli wars. The study of these cases implied that the defensive ought to receive more credit than it hitherto has had in Western strategic theory as the strategy of choice even in “total” wars. |
| Uitgever: |
Routledge |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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