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Clausewitz and the clout of policy on warfare

Clausewitz: ‘War is merely the continuation of policy by other means’. Attempts to reduce complex social phenomena to simple formulae have seldom been successful in human history. However apt they may be, they can never do more than express one aspect of reality. ‘L’état, c’est moi’, the famous sentence attributed to Louis XIV, the ‘Sun King’, expressed one aspect of absolutist reality in the eighteenth century. Clausewitz’s formula,...

D-Day: Hitler Was Right — and Nobody Wants to Explain Why

Six weeks before the Normandy landing, German E-boats intercepted the Allied invasion rehearsal off the Devon coast. Four of five troop transports were torpedoed. Hundreds of soldiers and sailors died. From the water, the E-boats recovered a dead American officer whose uniform contained readable invasion plans. The plans confirmed Normandy as the target. The rehearsal was called Operation Tiger. What happened to it — and what happened to...

Deception in War, the command skills necessary for success

Deception in War. Surprise is a Principle of War…It should primarily be directed at the mind of an enemy commander rather than at his force. The aim should be to paralyse the commander’s will.’ Surprise is the great ‘force multiplier’ – it makes one stronger than is physically the case. Surprise can be achieved by a variety of methods: by forgoing preparations that an enemy might expect one...

Der Dienst – The Service

A backstory on Reinhard Gehlen and the fear of his “Now it can be told”-bookReinhard Gehlen, founder and head of Germany’s Bundesnachrichtendienst or BND, the Federal intelligence service in the days of the cold war, has enjoyed a publicity remarkable for one who, ostensibly (not to say ostentatiously), has fled the limelight. For in the days of his power he always moved in the shadows. He invariably wore...

Did Crowley interrogate Rudolf Hess?

Part 3 – Was Crowley involved in the interrogation of Rudolf Hess? Maxwell Knight from MI5, was bisexual and a friend of Lord Tregedar. Knight had a private menagerie and when Knight’s wife died in 1936, from a suspected overdose of painkillers prescribed for her bad back, bad rumors circulated … Rumors circulated that she committed suicide after participating in a magical ritual with Crowley. Some suggested that...

Die Glocke or the Bell Project

In this post we’ll take a look at the mysterious project ‘die Glocke’. Glocke translates into English as ‘Bell’. When trying to unravel Otto Maier’s bizarre history and when analyzing the amazing tales Mr Naumann once told us about the secret mountain base in the Harz region, one stumbles willy-nilly on ‘die Glocke’ project. In light of the puzzling Otto Maier’s engine and its bizarre features, die Glocke...

Dresden 1945: The City They Burned to Impress Stalin

February 13, 2026 Eighty-one years ago tonight, in the waning weeks of a war already lost, the baroque jewel of Dresden was subjected to what Klaus Rainer Röhl calls in Verbotene Trauer “the most extensive execution of German civilians that had ever occurred in this war.” The distinction is important: not the most devastating attack, not the largest raid—Hamburg in 1943 had already demonstrated the terrible efficiency of the firestorm...

Eastern front disasters predicted

Von Clausewitz stated in his book “Vom Kriege” that war is only a continuation of state policy by other means. “Der Krieg ist … ein Akt der Gewalt, um den Gegner zur Erfüllung unseres Willens zu zwingen” War … is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfill our will … Violence, that is to say (for there is no moral force without the conception...

Finding the Foe – the German airmen

Finding the Foe, deals with the postwar discovery and recovery of wartime Luftwaffe aircrew who were downed and lost over the UK, most of them during 1940s. There is a lot of detective work involved here. Sometimes airmen have been identified with the tiniest clue, although each case has a common thread; they were all concluded by the diligent research of private individuals and researchers, many involving the...

Flying Discs over Neuschwabenland

In their intriguing book, “Flugscheiben über Neuschwabenland” (Flying Discs over Neuschwabenland), authors Heiner Gehring and Karl-Heinz Zunneck delve into the mysterious world of flying discs, exploring the technological advancements and earthly backgrounds behind the UFO phenomenon. Over the years, the authors have engaged in discussions, exchanged information, and conducted interviews with people of diverse perspectives and scientific outliers. The book’s genesis lies in their pursuit of understanding the...

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Flying Saucer invented in Germany

Exact 75 years ago – on 15 july 1941, Rudolf Schriever started the development of a jet driven flying saucer. Article published in magazine “Die Deutsche illustrierte” 1953 There is a man in Germany who can say much more about flying saucers than any other man on this planet. He lives in a small house near Bremerhaven and his place buzz with activity. Emissaries from American research institutes and...

Foo fighters the first modern UFO’s

For those who didn’t read part one, Foo fighters is a name given to small, round flying objects which followed Allied bombers over Germany during the latter phases of the air war. There are also some reports of foo fighters in the pacific theater of the war. Sometimes they would appear singularly but more often in groups, sometimes flying in formation. By day they appeared to be small...

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