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Hmmmm. Clausewitz and Situationism is not a connection I would have imagined.

The article's first paragraph is poorly written. A game known as Kriegspiel has a much older heritage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsspiel_(wargame) and it appears that Debord's game was either a reinvention or merely a variant of it.

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While Clausewitz and Situationism might be disconnected, Debord himself often called on Clausewitz.

Here Clausewitz is mentioned in the opening paragraph of Debord's autobiography 'Panegyric':

http://debordiana.chez.com/english/panegyric.htm

and:

"The world of war presents at least the advantage of not leaving room for the silly chapter of optimism".

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