I don’t quite draw the line at denotative vs enactive speech—command languages which are not themselves contested would fit into neither “conflict theory” nor “mistake theory.”
“War is the continuation of politics by other means” is a very different statement than its converse, that politics is a kind of war. Clausewitz is talking about states with specific, coherent policy goals, achieving those goals through military force, in a context where there’s comparatively little pretext of a shared discourse. This is very different from the kind of situation described in Rao where a war is being fought in the domain of ostensibly “civilian” signal processing.
I don’t quite draw the line at denotative vs enactive speech—command languages which are not themselves contested would fit into neither “conflict theory” nor “mistake theory.”
“War is the continuation of politics by other means” is a very different statement than its converse, that politics is a kind of war. Clausewitz is talking about states with specific, coherent policy goals, achieving those goals through military force, in a context where there’s comparatively little pretext of a shared discourse. This is very different from the kind of situation described in Rao where a war is being fought in the domain of ostensibly “civilian” signal processing.