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UKRAINE: CLAUSEWITZ'S THREE R'S: RESOURCES, RISK, REWARD: James Holmes, first holder of the Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and blogger at The Naval Diplomat (https://navaldiplomat.com/), @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE H

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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UKRAINE: CLAUSEWITZ'S THREE R'S: RESOURCES, RISK, REWARD: James Holmes, first holder of the Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and blogger at The Naval Diplomat (https://navaldiplomat.com/), @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL
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0:00.0

This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

0:07.0

Here's John Bachelor.

0:12.0

My colleague and co-host, Gordon Chang, I'd Gordon G Chang.

0:15.0

We welcome Professor James Holmes of the U.S. Naval War College.

0:19.0

Jim, I'm in your classroom. You've taught me.

0:22.0

You must submit new ideas. Jim, I'm in your classroom you've taught me.

0:22.7

You must submit new ideas in war to Clausevitz's three hours.

0:28.8

Risk, reward, and at the important one resources.

0:34.0

Logistics win the wars, not tactics.

0:37.0

How does that apply to the Kursk Salient, now several days,

0:40.0

several weeks old, and also to the new threat action from Keith that we will use

0:47.0

loitering munitions against all of Russia starting with Moscow.

0:50.8

Good evening to you professor.

0:51.8

Hey Gordney, hey John, a pleasure as always.

0:56.0

Yeah, I mean it's a concept, a simple concept from Closovis.

1:00.0

Closovis is the, he's sort of the profit of concentrating forces on what matters

1:03.6

most I mean he wants he wants commanders to to keep their priorities straight and enforce

1:07.4

those rather than basically just attaching opening secondary theaters or secondary

1:12.2

operations all over the place which he claims

1:14.2

his a tendency throughout military history.

1:16.8

If you look at the Kirk's, if you look at the Kirk's offensive as an instance of a secondary

1:21.0

theater or operation, he applies three tests and again he's

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