Thucydides on Policy Strategy and War Termination
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Naval War College ReviewVolume 66Number 4 AutumnArticle 62013Thucydides on Policy, Strategy, and War TerminationKarl WallingFollow this and additional Thucydides on Policy Strategy and War Terminationl works at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-reviewRecommended CitationWalling, Karl (2013) 'Thucydides on Poltcy, Strategy, and War Termination,* iVđttìỉ ivíir (Migf Review-. Vol. 66: No 4, Article 6.Available at: https://digltal-commons.usnwc.edU/nwc-review/vol66/iss4/6Ulis Article is brought Thucydides on Policy Strategy and War Termination to you for free and open access by the Journals at US. Naval War Cxilk-ge Digital Commons It hai been accepted tor knduslnn an Nasal War College ReviThucydides on Policy Strategy and War Termination
ew by an authorized editor of vs. Naval War College portal Common!. For more information, please contact repository mqinrinsjiluMmv edu.Willing: ThucyNaval War College ReviewVolume 66Number 4 AutumnArticle 62013Thucydides on Policy, Strategy, and War TerminationKarl WallingFollow this and additional Thucydides on Policy Strategy and War Termination to be regarded as final. The defeated state often considers the outcome merely as a transitory evil, for which it remedy may still be found in political conditions at a later date.CLAUSEWITZWar is like unto fire; those who will not put aside weapons are themselves consumed by them.LI CHUANpnI' y XE Thucydides on Policy Strategy and War TerminationZINl“"4 or decades, Thucydides's account of the Peloponnesian War has been a staple A. of professional military education at American war colleges, thThucydides on Policy Strategy and War Termination
e Naval WarCollege especially.1 And with good reason—he self-consciously supplies his readers a microcosm of all war. With extraordinary drama and scrNaval War College ReviewVolume 66Number 4 AutumnArticle 62013Thucydides on Policy, Strategy, and War TerminationKarl WallingFollow this and additional Thucydides on Policy Strategy and War Termination.S. Army, 1976-80. After earning a BA in the liberal arts from St. John’s College in Annapolis. Maryland, in 1984, he was awarded a joint PhD in social thought and political science from the University of Chicago (1992). He has been a research fellow at the Program on Constitutional Government at Ha Thucydides on Policy Strategy and War Terminationrvard University and the Liberty Fund. He has been a professor of strategy at the Naval War College, first in Newport, Rhode Island, and currently inThucydides on Policy Strategy and War Termination
Monterey. California, from 2000 to the present. His publications include Republican Empire: Alexander Hamilton on War and Free Government and (togetheNaval War College ReviewVolume 66Number 4 AutumnArticle 62013Thucydides on Policy, Strategy, and War TerminationKarl WallingFollow this and additional Thucydides on Policy Strategy and War Terminationces. These include the origins of war, the clashing political objectives of belligerents, the strategies they choose to achieve them, and the likely character of their conflicts. As the war escalates, Thucydides expands his readers’ field of vision. He compels them to consider the unintended consequ Thucydides on Policy Strategy and War Terminationences of decisions of statesmen and commanders and the asymmetric struggle between Athenian sea and Spartan land power. He shows the ways in which eacThucydides on Policy Strategy and War Termination
h side reassessed and adapted to the other; the problems of coalition warfare; indirect strategies through proxy wars, insurgencies, and other forms oNaval War College ReviewVolume 66Number 4 AutumnArticle 62013Thucydides on Policy, Strategy, and War TerminationKarl WallingFollow this and additional Thucydides on Policy Strategy and War Termination66 l20,,l. No. 4. Art. 6versa; and myriad other enduring strategic problems that those who wage war at any time ignore at their peril. As a student of war and politics, whatever his faults, he was a giant with few peers, if any at all. Yet Thucydides says relatively little about peace, peacemakers, Thucydides on Policy Strategy and War Terminationand peacemaking. Not surprisingly, then, what he has to say on this subject often receives little attention al the war colleges, especially when thereThucydides on Policy Strategy and War Termination
are so many other rich questions to explore in his account.One thing Thucydides does say, however, needs to be pondered carefully to understand the pNaval War College ReviewVolume 66Number 4 AutumnArticle 62013Thucydides on Policy, Strategy, and War TerminationKarl WallingFollow this and additional Thucydides on Policy Strategy and War Terminationty-seven-year war between the Athenian-led Delian League and the Spartan-led Peloponnesian League—cannot, he argues, “rationally be considered a state of peace." despite the efforts of peacemakers like Nicias to turn it into one. Instead, it was a "treacherous armistice" or an unstable truce (5.26)? Thucydides on Policy Strategy and War Termination Although Thucydides never defines “peace,” his distinction between peace and a truce indicates that he had some idea of what peace might mean in theoThucydides on Policy Strategy and War Termination
ry, even if it was difficult, indeed impossible, to establish it between the Athenians and their rivals in the Peloponnesian League. Peace for him appNaval War College ReviewVolume 66Number 4 AutumnArticle 62013Thucydides on Policy, Strategy, and War TerminationKarl WallingFollow this and additional Thucydides on Policy Strategy and War Terminationrough violent means when conditions change or opportunity is ripe?The Peace of Nicias was not the only occasion when Thucydides treated a peace treaty as a mere truce (spondẽ). He also used the word “truce” to describe the Thirty Year Peace, the treaty that officially, at least, put an end to the Fi Thucydides on Policy Strategy and War Terminationrst Peloponnesian War of 462/1-445 BCE (1.115). Some modern scholars, skeptical that the Second Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE, popularly referred toThucydides on Policy Strategy and War Termination
as simply “the Peloponnesian War”) was inevitable, have argued that this agreement was a genuine peace. According to this view, Athens accepted the reNaval War College ReviewVolume 66Number 4 AutumnArticle 62013Thucydides on Policy, Strategy, and War TerminationKarl WallingFollow this and additional Thucydides on Policy Strategy and War Terminationwas the case, however. Because Thucydides’s account of the war is not the same as the war itself, it is possible that Thucydides was wrong, but we will never understand his work unless we try to understand him on his own terms, which is the objective of this article. Indeed, without a serious effort Thucydides on Policy Strategy and War Termination to understand Thucydides’s own view of the relation among policy, strategy, and war termination, efforts to analyze his account critically are likelyThucydides on Policy Strategy and War Termination
to produce more heal than light. I hey may even so distort understanding of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War that they rob both the author and hiNaval War College ReviewVolume 66Number 4 AutumnArticle 62013Thucydides on Policy, Strategy, and War TerminationKarl WallingFollow this and additional Thucydides on Policy Strategy and War Terminationof Nicias brought the Peloponnesian War to an end, one must pay careful attention to his presentation of the objectives and strategies of thehttps://digltal-common$.usnwc.edu/nwc-reviewA'ol66/l$$4/62 Thucydides on Policy Strategy and War TerminationNaval War College ReviewVolume 66Number 4 AutumnArticle 62013Thucydides on Policy, Strategy, and War TerminationKarl WallingFollow this and additionalGọi ngay
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