Maurizio Recordati Koen

To all of you out there:
If you’re a Tuxedo cat posting about anything strategery, you have my follow.
However, you will lose my follow if you tweet trash pop geopolitics and agonize over shitty definitions of “strategy.”

Exactly my comment. What kills me is people in Europe, including scholars and “experts,” who still treat Trump as a statesman, a guy with a vision (however ugly) for the US. The truth is much more banal: “policy” and “ideology” are purely instrumental to the ongoing bank robbery.

It’s because it’s not US foreign policy anymore. They’re not even trying to sell it as pursuit of national interest. It’s just Trump and the vultures around him.

Tutto molto bello

Virgilio Ilari, un fottuto genio. A piè di pagina in un articolo accademico:
"Improvvisamente mi vidi la scena dei nostri addetti militari che si aggiravano nella libreria ed ebbi la lucida percezione di essere davvero Er-mattung (nell'assonanza romanesca)."
[Ermattung = strategia di attrito in 🇩🇪.]

I have to admit, I was sorry to read that Emperor Maurice’s Strategikon was, in fact, Pseudo-Maurice’s. Maurice of Nassau and Maurice de Saxe—do not disappoint this stratégiste. Yours truly, Mo-mo.

This has applied to military writing for centuries and still does today. That reminds me of Harald Høiback's admonishment on military doctrine:
Avoid surrendering to "verbal and rhetorical pollution, long-range screwdriving and glorious bullshitting".

The Art of War literature teaches that writing #Strategy is an exercise fraught with illusion. You can't theorize it, you can barely describe it as a historical object, and you can't prescribe it. The gap between strategy in words and practice is the defining feature of the genre. #StrategicStudies

Anche tí ta ghè resún…
No, non per ora. Però c’è un upgrade in vista. Spero di trasferirmi dalla California del Sud—in de midol if nouèr—alla Pennsylvania, più vicino alla civiltà e al verde.

@paolomas.bsky.social Now do Negroni or Pastis.

It’s only been four days since people were saying Trump was getting frustrated with Putin and was working with Europe to bring in sanctions. It was like saying Kyiv would fall to the Russians in 3 days.

Gonna leave this here too. Given the times we’re living in…

Towards an Epistemology of Grand Strategy: Stereotype, Ideal Type, and the Dematerialization of the Concept Over the last decade, as grand strategy has become all the rage in international relations, foreign policy and security scholars have also started criticizing the concept in the common understanding i...

While I’m at it, gonna leave this little work of mine here for self promotion: #GrandStrategy isn’t “dead”, everyone! As long as you handle the concept carefully. thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2...

Towards an Epistemology of Grand Strategy: Stereotype, Ideal Type, and the Dematerialization of the Concept Over the last decade, as grand strategy has become all the rage in international relations, foreign policy and security scholars have also started criticizing the concept in the common understanding i...

While I’m at it, gonna leave this little work of mine here for self promotion: #GrandStrategy isn’t “dead”, everyone! As long as you handle the concept carefully. thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2...

Nuh-uh! I grew tired of grand strategy—particularly the way the idea is used in IR and applied history. (Yes, I’m one of those grumpy stratégistes!) So much so that I changed dissertation topic from GS to intellectual history and epistemology of strategic thought. [Thx for letting me vent out] :)

Past soldier writers knew better than most of today’s academics in the policy-relevance business that military theory and history are educational and interpretive tools to help us think autonomously—not grab bags of applied models, instructions, theories of victory, grand strategies, etc.

In the case of China and Sun Tzu, Western commentary is beyond unserious. I submit that this kind of naïveté owes to a common belief that people read strategic thought searching for applicable models and analogies.

America Will Miss Europe’s Dependence When It’s Gone European self-reliance for security will cost U.S. jobs, profits, and influence.

Now how do we get one of Trump's golf buddies to read this article, understand it, and pass it along in small, bite-sized chunks out on the course?

European self-reliance for security will cost U.S. jobs, profits, and influence. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/23/u...

And your team would be playing the Champions League final vs “my” AC Milan.

Clausewitz’s war as a duel metaphor? Montecuccoli’s.

Yes I did note it thanks

Hi again. Google Books shows only parts of the piece. Could you please confirm that the text of your thesis corresponds to the published chapter? While we're at it, am I representing your point correctly? Thanks

I read your diss. chapter, i’ll search for the related article. And yeah, even philosophy in general, is not too traveled a road.
I’m arguing that C. created a philosophy of science by playing with ontology, metaphysics, and epistemology.

Ended up here a little late and by chance while searching "Clausewitz + ontology" (I do these searches here sometimes...) That's definitely research I wanna read.

Mike Waltz Is Losing Support Inside the White House Although Trump decided not to fire his national security adviser over the Signal group chat, Waltz’s position is tenuous, officials say.

“Two officials said Waltz has created multiple other sensitive national-security conversations on Signal, including threads on Russia and Ukraine as well as military operations. They declined to address if any classified information was posted.”

Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Hahah

I find it obscene, OBSCENE that the guy cutting social programs and public sector jobs is the guy who less needs social programs—the wealthiest man on earth. Of course, that’s excluding public funding and services needed for his business.

Non so quanto si percepisca nell’infosfera italiana ma il governo USA è a tutti gli effetti fascista. A sto punto Machtpolitik per Machtpolitik mi augurerei un riavvicinamento UE-Cina-Canada e che la si faccia pagare a Trump-Putin.

Fuck Fascism

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