Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Center of Gravity ...



In battle, Schwerpunkt - the center of gravity - a term used by Carl von Clausewitz - equates to victory whenever a combatant takes control over the COG of any given conflict as the COG is “the hub of all power and movement, on which everything depends,”








These base concepts discussing how wars are won were woefully ignored by the US in Nam, the Middle East and in Afghanistan as indigenous forces don't have to win, just outlast, something great powers like Alexander the Great, England, Russia and the US seem to just not understand but Frank Herbert, in Dune did, voicing this set of tenets the US should have known about before getting involved in the disastrous misadventures depicted in this article.


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