The late Professor Michael Handel codified the “principle of continuity,” rebranding the Prussian soldier-scribe Carl von Clausewitz’s dictum that to win decisively on the battlefield, a ...

Clausewitz, who had died nearly a century before, moulded the minds of the leading soldiers and statesmen, ... echoing Clausewitz’s dictum: ‘The close combat, man to man, ...

Clausewitz showed that in three of the four years of conflict, logistical problems handicapped the Russian effort, and made lasting gains unattainable. Once again, there are parallels to the present.

When Clausewitz gave us his immortal dictum on war as the continuation of politics, he was writing in a specific historical and socioeconomic context.

Unlike Carl von Clausewitz’s dictum that “War is merely the continuation of policy by other means” – that a war’s goals are aligned with and derived from political objectives – there ...

As von Clausewitz famously put it, war is politics pursued by other means. Behind this dictum, however, lies a messy mix of questions regarding military force and its use to achieve foreign policy ...

On the Confusion in Clausewitz. Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz’s Vom Kriege (On War, published in 1832) remains an enigma for the social scientists, military theoreticians, and the officers of ...