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In contrast to Jomini, Clausewitz largely dismissed the value of military intelligence: "Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. . . . In short, most intelligence is false." His conclusions were influenced by his personal experiences in the Prussian Army, which was often in an intelligence fog due to the superior abilities of Napoleon's system.
In contrast to Jomini, Clausewitz largely dismissed the value of military intelligence: "Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. . . . In short, most intelligence is false." His conclusions were influenced by his personal experiences in the Prussian Army, which was often in an intelligence fog due to the superior abilities of Napoleon's system.
Clausewitz had a strong influence on German military thought,<ref>Antulio Joseph Echevarria, II, ''After Clausewitz: German Military Thinkers Before the Great War'' (2001) [http://www.amazon.com/After-Clausewitz-German-Military-Thinkers/dp/0700610715/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213823024&sr=8-10 excerpt and text search] </ref> and after 1900 on British thought. He had little influence on American military thought before 1945. <ref> Christopher Bassford, ''Clausewitz in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America, 1815-1945.'' (1994)</ref>. But he influenced [[Lenin]] and the Soviet tradition, as Lenin emphasized the inevitability of wars among capitalist states in the age of imperialism and presented the armed struggle of the working class as the only path toward the eventual elimination of war.<ref>Jacob W. Kipp, "Lenin and Clausewitz: the Militarization of Marxism, 1914-1921." ''Military Affairs'' 1985 49(4): 184-191. Issn: 0026-3931 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-3931(198510)49%3A4%3C184%3ALACTMO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1 in Jstor] </ref> Clausewitz directly influenced Chinese leader [[Mao Zedung]]. Mao read Clausewitz's ''On War'' in 1938 and organized a seminar on Clausewitz as part of the educational program for the Party leadership in Yan'an. Thus the "Clausewitzian" content in many of Mao's writings is not merely secondhand knowledge, via Lenin (as many have supposed), but reflects Mao's own in-depth study.
Clausewitz had a strong influence on German military thought,<ref>Antulio Joseph Echevarria, II, ''After Clausewitz: German Military Thinkers Before the Great War'' (2001) [http://www.amazon.com/After-Clausewitz-German-Military-Thinkers/dp/0700610715/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213823024&sr=8-10 excerpt and text search] </ref> and after 1900 on British thought. He had little influence on American military thought before 1945. <ref> Christopher Bassford, ''Clausewitz in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America, 1815-1945.'' (1994)</ref>. But he influenced [[Lenin]] and the Soviet tradition, as Lenin emphasized the inevitability of wars among capitalist states in the age of imperialism and presented the armed struggle of the working class as the only path toward the eventual elimination of war.<ref>Jacob W. Kipp, "Lenin and Clausewitz: the Militarization of Marxism, 1914-1921." ''Military Affairs'' 1985 49(4): 184-191. Issn: 0026-3931 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-3931(198510)49:4<184:LACTMO>2.0.CO;2-1 in Jstor] </ref> Clausewitz directly influenced Chinese leader [[Mao Zedung]]. Mao read Clausewitz's ''On War'' in 1938 and organized a seminar on Clausewitz as part of the educational program for the Party leadership in Yan'an. Thus the "Clausewitzian" content in many of Mao's writings is not merely secondhand knowledge, via Lenin (as many have supposed), but reflects Mao's own in-depth study.
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* Echevarria, Antulio J. ''Imagining Future War: The West's Technological Revolution and Visions of Wars to Come, 1880-1914'' (2007) [http://www.amazon.com/Imagining-Future-War-Technological-Revolution/dp/0275987256/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213823024&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search]
* Echevarria, Antulio J. ''Imagining Future War: The West's Technological Revolution and Visions of Wars to Come, 1880-1914'' (2007) [http://www.amazon.com/Imagining-Future-War-Technological-Revolution/dp/0275987256/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213823024&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search]
* Holmes, Richard, ed. ''The Oxford Companion to Military History'' ((2001) 1071pp; [http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Companion-Military-History/dp/0198662092/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207395287&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]; also online at [[OUP]]
* Holmes, Richard, ed. ''The Oxford Companion to Military History'' ((2001) 1071pp; [http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Companion-Military-History/dp/0198662092/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207395287&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]; also online at [[OUP]]
* Noe, Kenneth W., George C. Rable and Carol Reardon. "Battle Histories: Reflections on Civil War Military Studies" ''Civil War History'' 53#3 2007. pp 229+. [http://www.questia.com/read/5022722823?title=Battle%20Histories%3a%20Reflections%20on%20Civil%20War%20Military%20Studies online edition]
* Noe, Kenneth W., George C. Rable and Carol Reardon. "Battle Histories: Reflections on Civil War Military Studies" ''Civil War History'' 53#3 2007. pp 229+. [http://www.questia.com/read/5022722823?title=Battle Histories: Reflections on Civil War Military Studies online edition]
* Paret, Peter, Gordon A. Craig, and Felix Gilbert, eds. ''Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age'' (1986), 940pp; influential intellectual history of all the major military thinkers
* Paret, Peter, Gordon A. Craig, and Felix Gilbert, eds. ''Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age'' (1986), 940pp; influential intellectual history of all the major military thinkers
* Hattendorf, J.B. ''The Evolution of the US Navy’s Maritime Strategy, 1977–1986'' (Newport, RI: Center for Naval Warfare, 1989)
* Hattendorf, J.B. ''The Evolution of the US Navy’s Maritime Strategy, 1977–1986'' (Newport, RI: Center for Naval Warfare, 1989)
* Meilinger, Philip S. ''Airwar: Theory and Practice.'' (2003)234pp ISBN: 0-7146-8266-7
* Meilinger, Philip S. ''Airwar: Theory and Practice.'' (2003)234pp ISBN: 0-7146-8266-7
* Meilinger, Phillip S. "The Historiography of Airpower: Theory and Doctrine." ''Journal of Military History'' 2000 64(2): 467-501. Issn: 0899-3718 Fulltext: [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0899-3718(200004)64:2%3C467:THOATA%3E2.0.CO;2-F Jstor] [http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/aul/aupress/Books/Meil-Airmen/Airmen.pdf another online edition]
* Meilinger, Phillip S. "The Historiography of Airpower: Theory and Doctrine." ''Journal of Military History'' 2000 64(2): 467-501. Issn: 0899-3718 Fulltext: [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0899-3718(200004)64:2<467:THOATA>2.0.CO;2-F Jstor] [http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/aul/aupress/Books/Meil-Airmen/Airmen.pdf another online edition]
* Meilinger, Phillip S. ed. ''The Paths of Heaven The Evolution of Airpower Theory,'' (Air University 1997) [http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/aul/aupress/catalog/books/Meilinger_B29.htm online edition]
* Meilinger, Phillip S. ed. ''The Paths of Heaven The Evolution of Airpower Theory,'' (Air University 1997) [http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/aul/aupress/catalog/books/Meilinger_B29.htm online edition]
* Meilinger, Phillip S. ''Airmen and Air Theory: A Review of the Sources'' (2001) [http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/aul/aupress/catalog/books/Meilinger_B13.htm online edition]
* Meilinger, Phillip S. ''Airmen and Air Theory: A Review of the Sources'' (2001) [http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/aul/aupress/catalog/books/Meilinger_B13.htm online edition]
* McNeill, William. ''The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000'' (1984) [http://www.amazon.com/Pursuit-Power-Technology-Society-D/dp/0226561585/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195622058&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* McNeill, William. ''The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000'' (1984) [http://www.amazon.com/Pursuit-Power-Technology-Society-D/dp/0226561585/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195622058&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Parker, Geoffrey. ''The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800'' (2nd ed. 1996) [http://www.amazon.com/Military-Revolution-Innovation-Rise-1500-1800/dp/0521479584/ref=pd_sim_b_title_3 excerpt and text search]
* Parker, Geoffrey. ''The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800'' (2nd ed. 1996) [http://www.amazon.com/Military-Revolution-Innovation-Rise-1500-1800/dp/0521479584/ref=pd_sim_b_title_3 excerpt and text search]
* Roland, Alex. "Science and War," ''Osiris'', 2nd Series, Vol. 1, ''Historical Writing on American Science'' (1985), pp. 247-272, historiography. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0369-7827(1985)2%3A1%3C247%3ASAW%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S in JSTOR]
* Roland, Alex. "Science and War," ''Osiris'', 2nd Series, Vol. 1, ''Historical Writing on American Science'' (1985), pp. 247-272, historiography. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0369-7827(1985)2:1<247:SAW>2.0.CO;2-S in JSTOR]
* Roland, Alex. "Technology and War: The Historiographical Revolution of the 1980s," ''Technology and Culture,'' Vol. 34, No. 1. (Jan., 1993), pp. 117-134. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0040-165X%28199301%2934%3A1%3C117%3ATAWTHR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P in JSTOR]
* Roland, Alex. "Technology and War: The Historiographical Revolution of the 1980s," ''Technology and Culture,'' Vol. 34, No. 1. (Jan., 1993), pp. 117-134. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0040-165X(199301)34:1<117:TAWTHR>2.0.CO;2-P in JSTOR]
* Smith, Merritt Roe, ed. ''Military Enterprise and Technological Change: Perspectives on the American Experience'' (1987)
* Smith, Merritt Roe, ed. ''Military Enterprise and Technological Change: Perspectives on the American Experience'' (1987)
* Moyar, Mark. "The Current State of Military History," ''The Historical Journal'' (2007), 50: 225-240 online at [[CJO]]
* Moyar, Mark. "The Current State of Military History," ''The Historical Journal'' (2007), 50: 225-240 online at [[CJO]]
* Murray, Williamson and Richard Hart Sinnreich, eds. ''The past as prologue: the importance of history to the military profession'' (2006).
* Murray, Williamson and Richard Hart Sinnreich, eds. ''The past as prologue: the importance of history to the military profession'' (2006).
* Noe, Kenneth W., George C. Rable and Carol Reardon. "Battle Histories: Reflections on Civil War Military Studies" ''Civil War History'' 53#3 2007. pp 229+. [http://www.questia.com/read/5022722823?title=Battle%20Histories%3a%20Reflections%20on%20Civil%20War%20Military%20Studies online edition]
* Noe, Kenneth W., George C. Rable and Carol Reardon. "Battle Histories: Reflections on Civil War Military Studies" ''Civil War History'' 53#3 2007. pp 229+. [http://www.questia.com/read/5022722823?title=Battle Histories: Reflections on Civil War Military Studies online edition]
* Porch, Douglas. "Writing History in the "End of History" Era - Reflections on Historians and the GWOT" ''Journal of Military History'' 2006 70(4): 1065-1079. Issn: 0899-3718 Fulltext: [[Ebsco]], on war on terror, 2001-present
* Porch, Douglas. "Writing History in the "End of History" Era - Reflections on Historians and the GWOT" ''Journal of Military History'' 2006 70(4): 1065-1079. Issn: 0899-3718 Fulltext: [[Ebsco]], on war on terror, 2001-present
* Reardon, Carol. ''Soldiers and Scholars: The U.S. Army and the Uses of Military History, 1865-1920.'' U. Press of Kansas 1990. 270 pp.
* Reardon, Carol. ''Soldiers and Scholars: The U.S. Army and the Uses of Military History, 1865-1920.'' U. Press of Kansas 1990. 270 pp.
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