Strategy: “On War“ Carl Von Clausewitz part 2

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Different cultures have different ways of committing violent acts. As a young boy you learn to understand that some times you got to fight to be a man!

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Speaker 0 (0s): What up everybody? Well, welcome back. I hope you enjoyed Von Clausewitz part one. Did you catch that whistle in the beginning? Let me do it again. You guys know what that means. That means run white boy run. Cause you're about to get your ass kicked. That's what that means. I know because I was the white guy running. 

And since we're talking about war, I thought I'd start off this particular episode with a story about me getting my ass kicked. I don't know if that's magic or tragic, but here you go. So I'm a short white guy, talks a lot of shit should be no surprise to anybody. I gotten beat up a lot when I was a young man, I used to spend a lot of time at my cousin's house. And he lived in a predominantly Mexican neighborhood, which is cool with me. 

Cause I like Mexican food and I like Mexican people. And I think Mexican women are beautiful. And I was cool with all my neighbors and everybody around my cousin's house. But sometimes I had to walk a couple miles to go to the store. And so when I would do that, I had to walk through like a really rough part of town. 

And I think everybody knows if you're the wrong color in the wrong part of town, you're probably going to catch a right hook to the face. And that's what happened to me as I was coming back from the store, see, I successfully navigated the treacherous pathway to the store, but on my way back, I noticed some people noticing me. 

And then I heard this sound. And then all of a sudden the guy that was making that sound, I was staring at him whistling. And then I noticed some people coming from the other side, it was an ambush. It was an ambush. It's interesting because it's kind of ties into language. And I know this isn't a language podcast. We're going to get the Von Clausewitz. We're going to get there. But I think that this part is imperative. 

You know, the whistling language that is often found in South America is thought to be a primitive language. And in some time, in some particular schools of linguistics, it's thought to be extinct, but you need not go further than Vista California to find out that that language is alive and well, it may not have the exact same meanings, but as I was taking a few to the dome and these guys were whistling, I thought to myself, wow, that's a pretty good form of language. 

I mean, no one really knows what you're saying. Except the people whistling. There's all these codes. You know what I, you know, what's funny too. One more, little quick story here. You got to love the Mexican people. Every time I got beat up by a Mexican guy, he always had the common courtesy to make up a story. You know what I mean? By that, like when these guys came down, like after they did their, like one guy came up to me and he's like, Hey man, why you jumped my friend essay? 

Why did you jump my friend homes? You know? And I looking back on it, I think it goes, I think it goes to the heart of a good family. At least that young thug had the common decency to pretend like I had offended him. He didn't just come over and punch me in the face without saying something. You see what I mean? He at least had the decency to pretend that at some point in time I jumped one of his friends, even though I didn't never seen the men in my life, it's almost like he had a conscious and he was like, man, I can't just punch this guy. 

I have to at least pretend like something bad happened. You got to admire that. I think a that goes out to the heart and soul of them. My, my Mexican brothers. I love you guys. Thanks for teaching me some lessons. Okay. So we are on Von Clausewitz and we're going to, we're going to go down a few more points here of what war is. We went through 11 points in the previous podcast, and now we're going to go through some more. 

We left off with the last point we left off with was the political object. Now comes to the fore again. And let me just bring you guys up to speed by finishing the last paragraph so that you don't feel like you were unable to dip your toe in the water. Before we jumped in, generally speaking, a military objective that matches the political object in scale will. 

If the latter is reduced, be reduced in proportion, this will be all the more so as the political object increases its predominance. Thus, it follows that without any inconsistency Wars can have all degrees of importance and intensity ranging from a war of extermination down to simple armed observation. This brings us to a different question, which now needs to be analyzed and answered. 

Is there anyone out there that thinks they know the answer to that question? I'm listening. Put it in the comments below. Here we go. This is the point. Number 12, an interruption of military activity is not explained by anything yet said. However, modest, the political demands may be on either side, however, small, the means employed, however limited the military objective can the process of war ever be interrupted. 

Even for a moment. The question reaches deep into the heart of the matter. Every action needs a certain time to be completed. That period is called its duration and its length will depend on the speed with which the person acting works. We need not concern ourselves with the difference here. Everyone performs a task in his own way, a slow man, however does not do it more slowly because he wants to spend more time over it. 

But because his nature causes hand to need more time. If he made more haste, he would do the job less. Well. His speed then is determined by subjective causes and as a factor in the actual duration of the task, I'll stop there for a moment and just give some commentary. Are you guys noticing how this can be applied? Not only to war, but how these strategies can be applied to your daily life? 

You know, knowing that everyone performs a task in their own way and knowing the example of a slow man does not do it more slowly because he wants to spend more time over it. But because his nature causes him to need more time. You see all throughout these points, you can apply these strategies to your daily life. And I think it ties in really well with the neural linguistic programming courses that we are also doing in the podcast that you can find. 

If you go to true life podcast, one word capital T R U E capital L I F E true life. One word, search it. Now if every action and war is allowed its appropriate duration, we would agree that at least at first sight, any additional expenditure of time, any suspension of military action seems absurd in this connection. 

It must be remembered that what we are talking about is not the progress made by one side or the other, but the progress of military interaction as a whole, it's an important distinction there. Next point 13 only one consideration can suspend military action. And it seems that it can never be present on more than one side. 

If two parties have prepared for war, some motive of hostility must have brought them to that point. Moreover so long as they remain under arms, that means not negotiating a settlement that motive of hostility must still be active. Only one consideration can restrain it a desire to wait for a better moment before acting. 

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