A Note to Readers and Participants in the Clausewitz Roundtable

Don’t worry about missing any posts. Simply click on the “Clausewitz Roundtable” category link (at the bottom of each Clausewitz post) to display all Clausewitz posts in chronological order. This link may also be found on the blog’s right sidebar under the heading “Notable Discussions”. All of the posts in this discussion are archived for future reference under the “Clausewitz Roundtable” heading.

Here is the Clausewitz Roundtable link again. Click on it to read all Clausewitz posts.

Comment Problems

We were inundated with comment spam lately, but my anti-spam countermeasures appear to have caused problems for some legitimate commenters. So I have loosened up the anti-spam system. If you had difficulty leaving comments, please try again. Apologies for the hassle.

UPDATE: That didn’t work, so I have tightened the anti-spam system again. Please let me know if you have trouble posting comments.

Incoming Links to this Blog (and Other Feeds)

In the list of feeds near the top of the right sidebar, I’ve added a link to a Google feed that displays links from other blogs to this blog. This feed seems like an improvement over trackback links on individual posts, which are a spam magnet. (And I removed the link to the feed from the Chicago Boyz Forum, which is currently inactive.)

Please note also that each post on this blog displays, at the top of the list of comments, a link to a comments feed for that particular post. There used to be a link in the blog’s upper-right sidebar to a feed that displayed all comments from the blog, but I removed it because I thought it encouraged trolling. I don’t know if this was the right thing to do.

Is the current array of feeds optimal or could it be improved? I welcome suggestions.

Clausewitz Roundtable: Schedule and Marching Orders

On War

The schedule for posting the Clausewitz Roundtable will be as follows:

Book I, week of January 11, 2009.
Book II, week of January 18, 2009.
Book III, week of January 25, 2009.
Book IV, week of February 1, 2009.
Book V, week of February 8, 2009.
Book VI, week of February 15, 2009.
Book VII, week of February 22, 2009.
Book VIII, week of March 1, 2009.
Concluding comments and analysis, week of March 8, 2009.

Each “Book” above refers to one of the eight “Books” into which On War is divided.

I gave the roundtable participants, who were announced yesterday, their marching orders today. They are reproduced below the fold.

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