Clausewitz Suckz: Reason 7

All writing is a Rorschach blot to one degree or another. Less Rorschachiness is better for things like military strategy-making (that is, things with immediate material consequence). By Rorschachy, I mean a writing that is vague enough to allow the reader a good deal of personal interpretation based on the reader’s own predispositions, life experiences and other reading. A technical manual on how to operate a radio needs to be unrorschacky. A writing on military strategy isn’t a radio manual, but it should be closer to that (as to its Rorschackiness) than it is to political poetry. Clausewitz is way too Rorschacky for me. All that wonderous triangle stuff is dopey.