On War

Von Clausewitz, Carl/ Graham, Colonel J. J. (Translator)/ Maude, F. N.

ISBN 10: 1604593563 / ISBN 13: 9781604593563

Edité par Wilder Pubns Ltd, 2008

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264 pages. 8.90x6.00x0.80 inches. In Stock.

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• Titre: On War
• Éditeur: Wilder Pubns Ltd
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1604593563
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781604593563
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Brand New

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Synopsis

Although Carl von Clausewitz participated in many military campaigns, he was primarily a military theorist interested in the examination of war. On War is the West's premier work on the philosophy of war. Other soldiers before him had written treatises on various military subjects, but none undertook a great philosophical examination of war on the scale of Clausewitz's. On War is considered to be the first modern book of military strategy. This is due mainly to Clausewitz' integration of political, social, and economic issues as some of the most important factors in deciding the outcomes of a war. It is one of the most important treatises on strategy ever written, and continues to be required reading at many military academies.

Biographie de l'auteur

Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) was a Prussian soldier and German military theorist who stressed the moral and political aspects of war. His most notable work, Vom Kriege (On War), was unfinished at his death. Von Clausewitz espoused a romantic conception of warfare, though he also had at least one foot planted firmly in the more rationalist ideas of the European Enlightenment. He stressed the dialectic of how opposite factors interact, and noting how unexpected new developments unfolding under the "fog of war" called for rapid decisions by alert commanders. Clausewitz saw history as a complex check on abstractions that did not accord with experience. In opposition to Antoine-Henri Jomini he argued war could not be quantified or graphed or reduced to mapwork and graphs. Clausewitz had many aphorisms, of which the most famous is, "War is the continuation of policy by other means," a description of war which has won wide acceptance.