Histories of the Arab–Israeli War of 1967 have advanced a curious commonplace. As they have sought to account for the decisive factors in what they treat as a decisive war, soldiers and interpreters of their arguments have tacitly resorted to what Adolf Loos once referred to as a ‘principle of cladding’, or bekleidungsprinzip, in order to explain the successes of Israel’s armored corps. The bekleidungsprinzip is not a military principle but a dictum of fashion, according to which the renunciation of individual affect in dress is presumed to coincide with the emergence of the qualitative advantages of the modern. With little or no explanation to substantiate the relation between dress and success in armored warfare, histories of this war have instead explained that the causes of a decisive victory may have to be found in the relation between uniforms and technical uniformity. This presupposition possesses an intellectual history, in the course of which war intellectuals repeatedly sought to reconcile what they themselves posed as a contradiction between agency and structure by identifying a proper relation between habit and habitus. Elaborated in a series of doctrinal debates concerning the proper relation of the Jew to the tank in the Israel Defense Forces – and in subsequent interpretations of those disputes – the bekleidung argument is more than a mere curiosity of military history. It points, instead, to a theodicy of conflict according to which a reification of this history’s false premises presents itself to view in repeated images of their transcendence.

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犹太人与坦克：战争神学的习惯与习惯

1967 年阿以战争的历史推进了一个奇怪的老生常谈。当他们试图解释他们视为决定性战争的决定性因素时，士兵和他们论点的解释者默认使用阿道夫·卢斯曾经提到的“包层原则”或 bekleidungsprinzip，以解释以色列装甲部队的成功。bekleidungsprinzip 不是军事原则而是时尚格言，根据该格言，着装中个人情感的放弃被认为与现代品质优势的出现相吻合。很少或根本没有解释来证实装甲战争中着装与成功之间的关系，这场战争的历史反而解释说，决定性胜利的原因可能必须在制服和技术统一之间的关系中找到。这一预设拥有一段思想史，在此过程中，战争知识分子通过确定习惯和惯习之间的适当关系，反复寻求调和他们自己提出的能动性和结构之间的矛盾。在一系列关于犹太人与以色列国防军坦克的正确关系的学说辩论中，以及随后对这些争端的解释中，bekleidung 论点不仅仅是对军事历史的好奇。相反，它指出，