Today Musk mentioned Ludendorff.
After the war, Ludendorff became a prominent nationalist leader, and a promoter of the stab-in-the-back myth, which posited that Germany’s defeat and the emasculating settlement reached at Versailles were the result of a treasonous conspiracy by Marxists, Freemasons and Jews. He also took part in the failed 1920 Kapp Putsch and 1923 Beer Hall Putsch
His most famous work in this field was Der totale Krieg (The Total War), where he argued that a nation’s entire physical and moral resources should remain forever poised for mobilization because peace was merely an interval in a never-ending chain of wars.
I don’t get the context. What does it mean to mention someone’s name?