On Thursday 26 Nov 25, a Seminar on “The Legacy of Clausewitz in Greek Military Thought” took place at the Armed Forces Officers Club, organized by the Hellenic National Defence College.
The Seminar was attended by the Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff, General Dimitrios Choupis, the Commandant of the Hellenic National Defence College, Lieutenant General Athanasios Sardellis, Armed Forces and Security Forces Chiefs representatives, the President of the Hellenic Military Engineers Association, Lieutenant General (Retired) Spyridon Belegrates, as well as personnel from the three branches of the Armed Forces and HNDC’s students.
Main Lecture given by Major General Michail Ploumis, Joint War College Commander, with topic:”Clausewitz and Sun Tzu”
Seminar’s moderators were: Μr. Konstantinos Koliopoulos, Professor of International and Strategic Studies at the University of Piraeus and HNDC and Lieutenant General (Retired) Stavros Koutris, Honorary Commander of the “Archipelagos” Division .
Speakers and their lectures were as follows:
1st Panel “Theoretical Approaches to Clausewitz’s Theory of War”
- Mr. Charalambos Papasotiriou, Professor of International Relations of the Panteion University, on “Clausewitz and modern warfare”.
- Lieutenant General (ret.) Panagiotis Gartzonikas, Director of the magazine “Strategein” on “The contribution of Panagiotis Kondylis to the interpretation of Clausewitz”.
- Dr. Ioannis Nioutsikos, PhD at the War Studies of King’s College London on “Clausewitz and guerrilla warfare”.
- Dr. Spyros Katsoulas, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the American College of Athens, on “Clausewitz as the cornerstone of strategy in the era of Artificial Intelligence”.
2st Panel “Applications of Clausewitz’s theory of war”
- Mr. Konstantinos Koliopoulos, Professor of International and Strategic Studies at the University of Piraeus and HNDC on “The decisive battle and attrition in a possible Greek-Turkish war”
- Ms. Efstratia Syngellou, Assistant Professor at the University of Ioannina, on “Can Byzantium be read through Clausewitz? War and politics in the late Middle Ages”.
- Major General (ret.) Panagiotis Mavropoulos on “The causes of the failure of the Asia Minor Campaign in the light of Clausewitz’s Trinity”.
- Mr. Dionysios Tsirigotis, Associate Professor at the University of Piraeus, on “The Surpassing of the Peak of the Greek Military Strategy’s Offensive in Asia Minor”.
To watch the Seminar, visit the links below:
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/live/6WSUx-K6KoY?si=95rqUsepnt50-OtD
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr2urlDhrYU
