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On War is a work rooted solely in the world of the nation state, states historian Martin van Creveld, who alleges that Clausewitz takes the state "almost for granted", as he rarely looks at anything before the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, and mediaeval warfare is effectively ignored in Clausewitz's theory. [27]
Carl Philipp Gottfried (or Gottlieb) von Clausewitz [note 1] (/ ˈ k l aʊ z ə v ɪ t s / KLOW-zə-vits, German: [ˈkaʁl fɔn ˈklaʊzəvɪts] ⓘ; 1 July 1780 – 16 November 1831) [1] was a Prussian general and military theorist who stressed the "moral" (in modern terms meaning psychological) and political aspects of waging war.
The principles of war identified by Carl von Clausewitz in his essay Principles of War, [5] and later enlarged in his book, On War have been influential in military thinking in the North Atlantic region. The initial essay dealt with the tactics of combat, and suggested the following general principles:
Economy of force is one of the nine Principles of War, based upon Carl von Clausewitz's approach to warfare. It is the principle of employing all available combat power in the most effective way possible, in an attempt to allocate a minimum of essential combat power to any secondary efforts.
The concept of absolute war was a theoretical construct developed by the Prussian military theorist General Carl von Clausewitz in his famous but unfinished philosophical exploration of war, Vom Kriege (in English, On War, 1832). It is discussed only in the first half of Book VIII (there are only a couple of references to it elsewhere) and it ...
The book explores the life of Marie von Clausewitz, who was a member of the noble German Brühl family and married to military theorist, Carl von Clausewitz. After her husband's death in 1831, Marie edited and published her husband's books, the most famous one being, On War. Author Vanya Eftimova Bellinger examines the life of a "wealthy ...
This classifications of three types of modern war: cabinet war, people's war and guerrilla war built off of Karl von Clausewitz' two types of war. [11] This classification of cabinet wars stems from the analysis of warfare after the Napoleonic Wars by Clausewitz [12] and other military writers of the time. Debate centered around the question of ...
The title of Paret's book points to the powerful role the Prussian state played in Clausewitz's life, a power that reappears in the central role of policy and politics in Clausewitz's theories. The same year the biography appeared, Howard's and Paret's translation of Clausewitz's major theoretical work, On War, was published. Highly praised, it ...