Jon Tetsuro Sumida is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland and author of Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command: The Classic Works of Alfred Thayer Mahan Reconsidered and In Defense of Naval Supremacy: Finance, Technology and British Naval Policy, 1889-1914. He served as chair of the Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee from 2003 to 2006, and as Major General Matthew C. Horner Chair of Military Theory at the Marine Corps University from 2004 to 2006.
"Adds significant new weight to arguments for the contemporary
relevance of On War."--Air Force Research Institute"A cogent,
challenging and welcome book on the character of Clausewitz's
thinking on war....This book demands a wide readership, for it
exhibits the intellectual adventurousness that is the hallmark of
Sumida's scholarship. He has made a striking contribution to the
history of military thought..."--Journal of Modern History"An
original, argumentative, intelligent, disgressive, and interesting
book. . . . Any diligent reader of Sumida will be impelled to think
seriously about major issues in On War--Journal of Military
History"Sumida's discussion of military genius, decisionmaking
during wartime, and the relationship between history and theory in
military education is profound. His ideas reflect a synthesis of
the philosophy underpinning the founding of, among other
institutions, the Marine Corps University. This book is a new
must-read for national strategists and anyone who strives to be a
serious student of war."--Marine Corps Gazette
"Sumida offers a brilliant and convincing reevaluation of
Clausewitzs thought, his magnum opus On War, and his continued
relevance to modern warfare. . . . A major statement by a leading
military historian and intellectual heavyweight."--Robert M.
Citino, author of The German Way of War"A thoughtful, provocative,
and refreshing look at Clausewitz and his classic
treatise."--Charles E. White, author of The Enlightened Soldier:
Scharnhorst and the Milit�rische Gesellschaft in Berlin,
1801-1805"Compelling, elegantly written, and entirely convincing."
--George W. Baer, author of One Hundred Years of Sea Power: The
U.S. Navy, 1890-1990
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