Contributed by Paul Edward Strong. First published in Women In War WiW Group Newsletter No.28 Autumn/Winter 2020, Ed: Paul Strong & Celia Lee. Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, with her nephew, Æthelstan (Source: Wikimedia photo of the statue at Tamworth) In the millennia between the emergence of organised warfare and the modern era (post 1800), […]
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Marie von Clausewitz
Every discussion of wargaming demands a von Clausewitz quote: War is merely the continuation of politics with other means. Maria Von Clausewitz, On War. The wording of one of Carl’s most famous ideas, that war is the extension of politics, appears as it does only in Marie’s hand on a rough draft. The idea was […]