Talk:O. J. Matthijs Jolles

O. J. Matthijs Jolles
I have responded to your copyright concerns (immediately below) with more background (at bottom).

Chris Bassford

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Dear Ringess:

Reference your message regarding copyright, I am the author and copyright holder of the information I supplied from my book, Christopher Bassford, Clausewitz in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America, 1815-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), and I am the owner and editor of www.clausewitz.com, where the full text of the book is displayed at http://www.clausewitz.com/CWZHOME/Bassford/TOC.htm. I have sent an e-mail to Wikipedia Permissions to this effect from my clausewitz.com e-mail. I actually rewrote the piece substantially for Wikipedia, though obviously not enough to escape your eagle eyes. I have also attempted to wikify it, insofar as I understand your requirements. I retain copyright on the book, but freely give you whatever permissions you wish to display the sections I contributed to Wikipedia under the GFDL. I inserted a note to that effect at the end of my contribution on Jolles. Please let me know if this is adequate.

BTW, I too am interested in fractals and in nonlinearity generally, and this interest connects to Clausewitz. Alan Beyerchen wrote a great piece explaining the value of interpreting Clausewitz's theories through the lenses of nonlinearity and Compleity theory--this is perhaps IMHO the most important article published on Clausewitz in the past twenty years. See Alan D. Beyerchen, "Clausewitz, Nonlinearity and the Unpredictability of War," International Security, 17:3 (Winter, 1992), pp. 59-90. This article is also available in French: "Clausewitz: Non Linéarité et Imprévisibilité de la Guerre," Theorie, Littérature, Enseignement, 12 (1994), pp165-98.