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Republic of Germany] Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visited
Peking he was told of the high esteem which Mao Tse-tung
held for the German philosopher of war." 15

By analyzing the Vietnam war against a source untainted
by today's bias, we should arrive at a better understanding of
the deficiencies in military theory that led to our problems
there, and the changes necessary for the future. "The primary
purpose of any theory," said Clausewitz, "is to clarify con-
cepts and ideas that have become, as it were, confused and
entangled." 16 The purpose of this book is to lay out such a
theory, using our Vietnam war experience as the vehicle.


NOTES
1. Conversation on 25 April 1975 in Hanoi between Colonel Harry G.
Summers, Jr., then Chief, Negotiations Division, U.S. Delegation. Four
Party Joint Military Team and Colonel Tu, Chief, North Vietnamese (DRV)
Delegation.
2. See chapter 10, "Strategic Thinkers, Planners, Decision Makers," in
War and Politics by Bernard Brodie ( Macmillan: New York, 1973).
3. Alain C. Enthoven and K. Wayne Smith, How Much Is Enough: Shaping
the Defense Program 1961-1969 ( New York: Harper & Row, 1971), p. 90.
4. US Government Manual, 1979-1980 ( Washington, D.C.: USGPO,
1979), p. 202.
5. Lieutenant Colonel Albert Sidney Britt III, "European Military Theory
in the 18th and 19th Centuries," Supplemental Readings for Advanced
Course in the History of Military Art (West Point, New York: USMA,
1971), p. 10.
6. Carl von Clausewitz, On War, edited and translated by Michael Howard
and Peter Paret with Introductory Essays by Peter Paret, Michael Howard
, and Bernard Brodie and a Commentary by Bernard Brodie
(Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1976), 11:2, p. 133
[Afterwards, " Clausewitz, On War." The roman numerals represent the
book, the arabic numerals the chapter.]
7. Leslie H. Gelb and Richard K. Betts, The Irony of Vietnam: The System
Worked ( Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1979), p. 353.
8. Clausewitz, On War, II:1, pp. 131-32.
9. JCS Pub. 1: Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms ( Washington,
D.C.: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1979), p. 217.

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