On War

Introduction by Michael Howard

By Carl von Clausewitz
Introduction by Michael Howard and Peter Paret
Translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret

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On War by Carl von Clausewitz

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May 25, 1993 | 920 Pages

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Carl von Clausewitz was not only an officer who served with great distinction during the Napoleonic campaigns but was also a military historian and intellectual of the highest order—at ease with both the strategic doctrines of his time and the larger movements of thought in the world around him.  Out of these elements he distilled his classic discussion of the nature and meaning of one of humankind’s central endeavors, war—which he famously declared to be “the continuation of politics by different means.”
   
Though unfinished at his death, On War contains all his important ideas about absolute versus limited war, the intrinsic violence of war, and its necessary subjugation to political ends.  It would be impossible to overestimate the influence of this book on subsequent strategic thinking, on the political considerations that underlie such thinking, and on the general understanding of human conflict.

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Hardcover
Published by Everyman’s Library
May 25, 1993 | 920 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780679420439

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