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So, first you have the students read an esoteric text, translated out of a language most/all of them cannot read and which they are not expected to really understand at first. I tell my students they should expect to read it twice, once before and again after the lecture... 2/7
Honestly, I don't think anyone really grasps Clausewitz at the first reading without having it explained to them. I certainly didn't. So then the students come in on Clausewitz day, either thinking (wrongly) they understand Clausewitz, or knowing that they don't... 3/7
Then, over the course of the lecture, you unravel the exegesis of the scripture: the ideal of war, reciprocal actions, friction, 'by other means' and so on The entire thing even culminates in revelation of the mystery of war as both constant and chameleon, 1 and yet 3... 4/7
There's even a trinity! And ideally at the end, they have taken the mystery of Clausewitz onboard and are now initiatives in the Cult of Military Theory, now able to utter the magic words, "Center of Gravity" and "Friction" and harness their arcane power... 5/7
Honestly, the only things missing are that I don't burn any incense, there aren't any mirrors, and we didn't sacrifice an animal at the beginning. It's too bad - it might be fun to do the lecture with the class ritually chanting "As Clausewitz says" after each line. 6/7
And before anyone asks me to do Clausewitz on the blog - obviously that won't do! I might street-preach about operations and logistics, but clearly the Inner Mysteries are only for the Initiates who have sacrificed tuition to the bursar's office. end/7
Clausewitz was struggling to grasp Clausewitz.... and was just getting a handle on his text, when he died.
I tell my students exactly this, mostly to assuage any anxiety over not feeling like they understand the text before we talk about it. Some students get really spooked by that - too used to learning to tests, I think - so I find it helps to lower the stress of a hard text.
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