Boothbay Region High School - Log Yearbook (Boothbay Harbor, ME)

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THE BOOFHBAY HARBOR LOG CLAL SEXY lT7 People had heard very l1ttle about K rl von Clausexxltz DIQVIOUS to Nlax 1940 xx hen tl1e G 1n1a1 Blltz krleg began 1ts roll xx estxx ard Over nlght hlS name appeared IH countless nexvspapels and per1od1cals 111 th1s country and abroad xx as heard slashlng fron1 the l1ps of the yyar expe1ts as they attempted to explaln to a bewlldered wo1 ld just xx l1at xyas happenlng 111 the Low COlllltI'lGS and France For Karl V011 Clausevy 1tz was a PPUSSIHII officer xvho llved long ago who vxas so far ahead of h1S t11ne m1l1tar1lx speaklng that xxe have yet to catch up xylth h1S 1d9aS have yet to fully appreclate and fully apply h1s theor1es on vxar and natlons He was the first to COHCCIVB the fund amentals and to elaborate upon the dGta11S of what xxe now call strateg1c SCIQHCG he was the fi1 st to grasp the 1n1portance and to fully develop the concept or theory of total vxar total war far lll excess of what the world has yet seen Tl1erefore you xylll I may presume accept as good reason for the b1ograph1cal sketch wh1cl1 follows the proven verltx of hlS theorles the far reach111g results of h1s advanced I'9HSO111I1g Karl V011 Clausew1tz yxas born 1n Burg Pr11ss1a 011 the first day of June 1180 Afte1 an 1111eventful ch1ldl1ood he entered tl1e army before h1s elghteenth b11tl1day and exper1enced h1s first Iightlng dur111g the Rhlne C,ampa1gn of 1793 94 C13.llS9VSltZ recelved hlS first con1 IIIISSIOH at the selge of NIa1nz several years after enter111g the army After returnlng from a per1od of garr1so11 duty the young sold1er began SGFIOUSIV to study the pr111c1ples of warfare a11d soon entered the Berllll Academy for young offlcers where he lll M1116 came greatlv under the lnfluence of von Scharnhoxst iafter WhOl11 the 111odern Gern1a11 battleshlp Scharnhorst IS namedj I11 1803 CIHUSQXVIKZ now a competent offlcer lll the PI'llSSl2ll1 Arn1x xxas made a1de de CHDID to Pr1nce August and presently saxx further act1on IH the ca1npa1gn of Jena ln 118061 but xx as unfortunately captured xy1th the Pr1nce at Prenzlan and xxas held a pr1soner for txxo years Hoxxevex UDO11 h1s release 1n 1809 C1ausexx1tz yxent agaln to Pruss1a and became Ill t1me the departn1ental ch1ef of the M1111stry of xy ar taught several years ln the n11l1tary school and later lHStI'llCt6d the Croxxn Pr1nce 111 n11l1t'1ry 'SCISIICC and tactlcs S111 later he had the good fortune to be perm1tted to ass1st von Scharnhorst 1n the 1eorgan1zat1on of t1e the11 rather decadent Pru slan Affly In the RUSSIHH VVar of 1819 Clausew1tz served as adjutant to General Phull a11d organlzed the Landwehr of East Pll1SSl3.f-Xlllly of East PTUSSIHJ He was at the Water loo campalgn as Chlef of General Th1elman11s staff Flnally 1n 1818 Clnusewltz gave uo such st1e11ous act1ve duty a11d was appo1nted head of the Allgenemc Kr1egsschule CCD1 tral War Schoolj But the old soldler returned to act1ve duty as ch1ef of staff to F1eld Marshall von Gne1senau Ives tl1e other German battle CI'L1lS9I'J after the d1ssolut1o11 of yxhose arn1y he resu111ed l11s no11 act1ve dut1es a11d xx as made Inspector of Prusslan Artlllery But soon Clausewltz ca111e down w1tl1 the dreaded cholera and d1ed IH 1831 fNOV9Hlb91 1btl1J at the Clty of Breslau tl1en or at that tlme sltuated xy1tl11n the P1uss1an border Hls papers W919 publlshed and ed1ted by h1s xvldoxx and fr1ends and 1ncluded Karl von Cl3.llS6XWlllZS n1asterp1ece Yom Ixrlege fof vxarj 1n three volumes belllg a11 eXpos1t1on of tl1e p 1105013115 fstratcglc and pol1t1calJ of xxar Through yon Kr1eg vo11 Clausew1tz can1e to be recogmzed as tl1e foremost strateglst of the xxorld He was 1ndeed the founder of modern strateglc sc1ence Other volumes coxer the 1111l1tarv hlstorx ' Y . u Y Y J ' ul n -' V ' . ' . Y 1... , s V V V ,V - . A .tr s lf I ' ' , , vi . . v I - , V . . . . ' 7 s 7 - 7 V . . Y YV ' . . 1 . . V V . . . . 1 V . . y . Y , . Y . V . . . I Y . Y. : 1 . . . L ! Y ' l 1 . 3 ' ' ' V ' V V V Y . . 1 .V 1 - 1 Y . c. S 1 Y V V . , 1 . nw -1, V Y. . . A -. V ' V r - . - 9 . , . Y . . , , , . . Y 1 V 2, , V Y V V Y Y . . OY Y . . - J .J 1 1 V 1 . 1 .1 , v 7 y . Y . Y Y . - 7 5 1- 1 . . , . . Y . . YY .Y . . V . '. . , . , . ,- V V 1 . , . . . ' 9 Y. . . - Y. . Y . . A Y . A 1 'V Y . Y . . Y . . . . . Y. , . Y V V ' as Y v ' sr , - 7 nf . 1 . I.. Y Y Y . . . , .1 , V T .1 v - ry , . Y V Y . . . Y Y v QV . .21

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THE BOOTHBAY HARBOR LOG of the per1od Clauseyyltz IS famous also for h1s Lxfe of Scha1 11110151 a11d and Letters S1101 tly aftel l11s de tl1 Schyya1tz a g e t XYIILEI of tl1e perlod publxshel hlS Lebc11 des Ge11e1als yon Clausewltz und der Fmu XIHIIC von Clausewltz ftwo yolun1es Be1l111 1811 second ant' la gest ed1t1o11J Othex detalls of QIEHISGVKIIZS llfe IIIHV be found lll V011 xI6GI'll81I'1lb s Karl yon Clause VS1tZ fBQI'lll1 18103 111 Be111hard1s lebe11 des Generals von Clause yy1tz and 111 the te11tl1 supplement of NI1l1tar1scl1es Wochenblatt pub l1sl1ed 111 1818 'Now tl1at we have explored to a ce1ta111 extent the l1fe and accom pl1shments of Ka1l v011 Clausewltz let us go st1ll deeper and look at the apphcatlon of some few of hls strat 9glC 1deas as put forth 111 that great handbook of war Von1 Kr1eg Let us co11s1der tl1e war IH Russla As ma11y who read T1n1e Nlagazme fFeb 16 19491 should alreadv k110w Stahn s chlef advlsor 011 111111 tary matters and the Red Armvs gleatest a11d most successful strat 6g1St IS Borls Shaposhm' ov a qulet un0btrus1ve a11d yet b11ll1ant planner If there IS one 111an 111 Russla whom Stalln dares not purge lt IS Sha.pOSh11lk0V fo1 wlth out Shaposhmkovfol these Russ1a11 namesl the1e would be 110 Red Almy 110 Moscow no XNll1tGl offen s1ve He IS the bra111s behmd the army the strateglst of strateglsts a11d tl1e boss of tact1c1a11s And yet great as he IS Shaposhmkov needs must look to Cl3llS8VlltZ for '1dVlC6 alld strategy Sl1aposl1n1kov has read Clausewltzs Xom lxr1eg many tunes l1as 111e1110r1zed passage after 11nporta11t passage l1as lelalll ed Ol co11stantlv lefers to the rest of the wo1k And though we l1ave 110 su1e way of know111g lt would be leasonably safe to assun1e tl1at Sh p0ssl1111k0v applled the follow lllg passage taken dnectly fro111 Xom Kl16g to the fall campalgn of 1es1sta11ce that the Red Army so l1lZ1glllflC9lltlX carr1ed out Tl1e commander says Clause XKltZ must guess wl1ether after 1ece1y1ng the lllltlal blows the core of tl1e oppo11ent s Army lS gl adually becommg condensed tempered and stlengthened Ol to the contrary begllllllllg to cru111ble 11110 d11st llke a deca11ter n1ade of BOlOgI1a glass whose surface l1as been cracked The c0n1111ander must figure out w1tl1 DTQCISIOH l10w much tl1e e11en1y state w1ll be weake11ed by the loss of ce1ta111 sources of supply and bv the dlSCOI1119CtlOH of certa111 arter ISS He must foretell w1thout mls take whether the e11en1y w1ll collapse 111 pam from the wou11ds lI1fllCt6d on hllll or hurl h11nself forward w1th fxenzled n11ght l1ke a wounded ond enraged bull It IS entlrely obvlous that fa1lure 1113115 vlctory last fall On tl1e other l1a11d Shaposhmkov a11d through l11m Russla had observed and foll owed them m the reverse that IS the Red Ar1ny had tlghtened a11d glow ll strong 111 the face of early reverses had made pr0v1s1o11 to keep up the flow of war suppllesfby l11OV1l1g entlre ll1dl1StI'l9S behlnd the Lralsl had kept a sharp watcl1 on the e11en1y to see what was COI1llllg l19XtfWlth the ald of a11 ex tremely efhclent G 7 1ntell1ge11ce sectlonl Tl1e tQ3.Cl1lI1gS of Clausew1tz who l1ved 111 former Prussla over a l1un d1ed years ago had been neglected by the hlgh German strateglst obeyed by the Russ1a11 strateglst ShHDOShl1lkOV w1tl1 tl1e resultant collapse of the German drlve on Moscow and the s0uthe111 011 fields tl1e su1pr1s1ng but 11evertheless successful w111ter drlve by the Red fxrmy Thats enough to n1ake eve11 a C IBUSGWIIZ turn over 111 l11s glaV6 DONALD PRATT . H 1 1 v 1 v . ' sy , ' W U . ' ' 4 -1 sv , - 9 v 1 11 9 v1' 1 V. H 7 ' 1. , , A .. , ' y ' ' 7 ' KK . 1 1 1 1 , 1. 1 Y ' ' ' ' 1 ' 1 1 . 1, i v. ,, , . A 1 1 A 4 ' .x y Y ' FU-I , ' . , ' , X A i 1 is .vs N, , . . . . . ' ! ll V Y - v v. ,, 1 F- 1 ' -Q ' , , A5 1 1 1 4 ' 7 ' v' ' . - ' f- . . t ' A , , . V. . - 1 ' ,, ' 1 ' 1 7. 1 1 7 . 1 1 Y , , . Q . . . 16 ' !9 l , . . . . . V 1 g ' D , - - to follow thls adv1ce cost the Ger- c I ' , ' 9 ' 1. 1 , . . v ' , ' - - ' S 1 1 1 1 1 ' l I . 1 1 1 I T' 7 Y , . 7 7 1 - 1 . V . . . . , V. - 1 7 v . ' 1 1 v vi s - v - A vi 7 I ' gg 5 yy 1 1 . . . . -gy 7 Ct 9! ' ' ' ' ' 5 .v 1 s ' Y. 7 y. , ,1 , , . ,, , . . ' 1 1 Y 1 ' - 1 I 7 1 v 1 ' ' ' 5 ! 1 v , v 7 ,- D . . V- , . . . . ' ! 1 1' 41 v ,' as I ' Y 3 '19