even let the United States wiggle itself in. This is a perfectly clearly written clause . And this basically gives Iran control of the straight of Hormuz andalso of the the the discretion to set the fees for as far as the I can see with no constraint whatsoever.
So that's the basic gist of our system, and it's been that way since the framers of the Constitution first put in a clause about the need to promote progress in the useful sciences and arts.So that's the underlying concept.
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It was a really rugged campaign. Clausewitz says it almost kills him. He's only 12, 13 years old when this is going on.
They've got to reform the government. Clausewitz is very heavily involved in this. He also becomes the instructor of what becomes their war college.
France is about to invade Russia. Clausewitz doesn't want to participate in anything under the French flag. He hates Napoleon. He admires Napoleon's military skill, but he hates him politically.
Napoleon tries to defeat the Russians in order to-- it would make him master of Europe essentially if he does this, at least of the continent. Clausewitz is involved in this campaign from the first day it starts to the very bitter end of it. And it's just a gruesome bloodletting the entire time.
Essentially, you have a French invasion, and the Russians retreat in the face of the French invasion. Clausewitz initially is on one of the extended versions of the czar's staff through his connections with various officers and politicians, but he doesn't want to do this. He wants to have a posting where he'll see some action, because, again, here's the ambition.
You have French troops attacking Russian positions. Clausewitz is involved in the cavalry attack that the Russians launch, try to launch on this flank here, and they have a firefight with some French and Croatian troops here. Essentially, the Russians fight them to a standstill.
They begin their retreat toward Moscow again. Clausewitz goes back to the rear guard. Has a horse shot out from under him in one action on the way to Moscow.
As Napoleon is retreating, the Prussian troops are also retreating in a different part of Russia. Clausewitz's unit comes in contact with this. He worked for this man here named Diebitsch.
And the other Russians had been trying to do this. Clausewitz talks to them and after a couple days of conversations-- and there's certainly some willingness. A lot of the Prussians didn't want to be here anyway.
lead to the first overthrow of Napoleon. Clausewitz, he tries to get back in the Prussian army. The king isn't real happy with what he's done.
Napoleon, the French commander, defeats the Russian-Prussian army that comes against him. Clausewitz calls this the most memorable day of his life. And he says this, I think, one, because the intensity of the battle.
Now in "On War," he's very critical in parts of his book on war about intelligence. Clausewitz will have a couple of jobs in the Prussian army after this.
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who are advancing the required funds, who will determine whether, to what extent and in what manner they shall be made public." A clause to which Saranac Laboratories said, "Yes." But after their lead researcher who was compiling all this evidence died in 1946, the companies agreed that nothing should be published that contained any objectionable material.
We know what's there. Santa Clause is there. And I thought this must be a pretty old idea, but when I was doing the research for the book, I found out that really the idea of Santa being at the North
But if they've ever heard of Clausewitz, or if anyone's ever heard of him, obviously he's the author of "On War." And that's certainly where he's been most of influential. But Clausewitz was also a soldier, and this is sometimes forgotten in the discussion of his ideas and end of his life. And it gives him a little bit more credibility to some of my students, who have often been deployed nine or 10
And they will win the war because of it. Now Clausewitz will fight at the Battle of Auerstedt right here. And his unit is the rear guard, meaning the Prussians had essentially already lost the battle.
And Prussia essentially comes apart during this. And Clausewitz is shipped off to France as a prisoner of war with Prince August. And now when Americans, for most of us today, if we think anything about prisoners of war, we think about Andersonville, or we think about Stalag 17,
But what will happen is as the French and their other ally troops are retreating from Russia, the unit that Clausewitz is in will make contact with the Prussian Expeditionary Corps. Now, you remember, the Prussians had been forced to ally with France to invade Russia.
is also fighting hand-to-hand at times in this battle. And Clausewitz is hit on the side of the head with a bayonet in what was probably a cavalry charge against a French infantry square, certainly a French infantry unit.
Now in "On War," he's very critical in parts of his book on war about intelligence. And Clausewitz does not fight in the Battle of Waterloo itself, but he fights in a couple of other places during the campaign.
Now in "On War," he's very critical in parts of his book on war about intelligence. For Clausewitz, it's the worst night of his life.
Now in "On War," he's very critical in parts of his book on war about intelligence. And Clausewitz's wife writes later about why he thought this was such a bad day.
Now in "On War," he's very critical in parts of his book on war about intelligence. To Clausewitz, theory was really very important-- having a theory, a method for approaching things.
Now in "On War," he's very critical in parts of his book on war about intelligence. To Clausewitz, wars are divided into two types.
one of many strange moves, in retrospect, made by Hitler-- the Japanese didn't reciprocate. And Clausewitz famously, as he was writing his great work on war, had a rethink because you looked back and realized
And anything that was good in it has been rolled back by the attorney general. So it put a clause in there that it's not our practice to shackle women. But it is up to the officer's discretion, which it always was anyway.
The club has paid my agent on my behalf. And a gross-up clause is a miraculous payment which comes one week before HMRC's tax bill comes along.
Then what happens? If it's from a dealer or an auction house and they're reputable, then they won't sell it. They put a sunset clause in it, which is going to be ending very soon.
So for years, law enforcement agencies had not been getting court orders, or lying to judges and getting court orders. There was even a clause that said that if you were in the middle of a trial and you were about to say what the technology was, that you had to-- the prosecutor had to dismiss the case.
So this is something that you want to talk about with the professional that you're working with, with your attorney, with your broker to make sure all of that is handled. An acceleration clause or an alienation clause -- when someone takes out a loan and a mortgage, a lot of times people say, I am going to take a mortgage.
So you're like, that's a harmless clause . It is that clause that prevents civilian oversight boards from having any power. And the police have just been amazing negotiators in cities across the country, putting this language like so deeply embedded that looks innocuous
And unfortunately, because I'm going the festival route, I can't put it online yet. That's like a clause that pretty much every festival is, it can't be online anywhere. So I mean, we're gonna be wrapping up the whole festival circuit around October of this year.
a little clause in our Endangered Species Act, kind of a big loophole about destroying stuff when things first get listed. Still
scared of this particular clause and if you don't get information in 30 days time or if you get information which is
next 48 hours is uh President Trump started to and his administration started to undermine the document violate the clauses in that document. So issue number one was Secretary Rubio establishing a framework accord agreement in Lebanon which essentially
There are the religion clauses , which we're not going to talk about today.
And those clauses still exist today.
Or you look at some of the more insidious things. So there are clauses around the country that will say like, the police chief is the final arbiter of discipline, which most people are like, that make sense because it's the police chief, right?
more to him than that, which is good, because the book is kind of hard to read. I've tried reading Clausewitz and didn't go too far. So with that, let's welcome Donald Stoker.
And to me, you can't separate his experience as a soldier from his writing as a theorist, because both things are so intertwined. And so Clausewitz, again, he was a soldier, and a soldier with an enormous amount of experience. He was probably in 36-- either in or present at least three dozen battles.
will then launch through central Germany and into France that will eventually lead to Napoleon's downfall. But to Clausewitz, this is kind of a disappointing campaign in a couple senses. One, the primary campaign is through central Germany and into France.
They trade countries around like they're poker chips. And so Clausewitz ends up in this army that's Bernadotte's army, but he ends up working for this man named Walmoden in Walmoden's corps. Walmoden's corps is one of the-- and some of the units in it are the oddest units.
He's got Russians and Prussians and various Germans. The unit that Clausewitz is technically a part of-- I looked at their roster-- it's supposed to be the Russo-German legion. It's got some Germans in it.
Now in "On War," he's very critical in parts of his book on war about intelligence. But then Clausewitz goes to yet his fifth war.
Now in "On War," he's very critical in parts of his book on war about intelligence. Because to Clausewitz, war and reality-- its influence is determined by these various things.
Now in "On War," he's very critical in parts of his book on war about intelligence. So what would Clausewitz say about how do you think about fighting a war-- what do you think about, what do you do before you're getting into this thing?