WAR SPENDING IS NOT FRIVOLOUS SPENDING -- BY JAMES CARAFANO, Washington Examiner

He witnessed his nation humiliated in war. He vowed it would never happen again.

Carl von Clausewitz served as the young aide-de-camp to Prince August Ferdinand of Prussia. At the battles of Jena-Auerstedt (1806), he stood by as Napoleon's forces obliterated the once-proud legions of Frederick the Great.

Branded by defeat, Clausewitz dedicated his career to reforming the Prussian army. He rose to the rank of major general and commanded the war academy. His

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