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the uses and abuses of historical studies
* the nature of the balance-of-power mechanism
* the relationship between political objectives and military objectives in war
* the asymmetrical relationship between attack and defense
* the nature of "military genius" - as exemplified particularly in Frederick the Great and in Napoleon Bonaparte
* the "fascinating trinity" Wunderliche Dreifaltigkeit of war
* philosophical distinctions between "absolute or ideal war," and "real war"
* in "real war," the

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