>There's a core there that does transcend "the historical and cultural milieu of its origination," but you kinda need to tether the text to its milieu to find i

>There's a core there that does transcend "the historical and cultural milieu of its origination," but you kinda need to tether the text to its milieu to find it. Strong agree. Clausewitz has a whole Chapter on billeting armies. The advice presented is mostly of use to historians. Not everything he wrote was timeless. Applying a work in a modern context involves understanding its limitations and the context in which it was written. Why did Clausewitz think X? If X is still relevant today, is it relevant for the same reasons that it was 200 years ago? Does this idea X truly transcend time, or are there just many important similarities between our time and the time of Clausewitz?