Clausewitzs on war a biography book
In engaging and vivid detail Hew Strachan reveals the story behind the most important treatise on war ever written - a book that has been blamed for the unprecedented death tolls in the first and second world wars.
Perhaps the most important book on military strategy ever written, Carl von Clausewitz's On War has influenced generations of generals and politicians.!
The relevance of Clausewitz's 'On War' to today's conflicts
Libraries have been filled with works and critiques analysing, examining, deconstructing, explaining, glorifying or reviling Carl von Clausewitz’s seminal work On War.
First published in Germany in 1832, On War, consisting of eight books numbering more than seven hundred pages, is still widely read. It is a standard source for those interested in the phenomenon of war and armed conflict. The work is based on rigorous analysis of the wars of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, all being wars between nation-states.
With the rise of intrastate conflicts, civil wars and, in particular, terrorism in the last two decades, some thinkers consider On War as a relic from the past. Is On War still relevant in the world of today’s conflict?
Colonel E.A.
de Landmeter*
‘The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remaind
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