Carl von Clausewitz’s On War remains one of the foundational texts on strategy. It’s quoted in war colleges, cited in white ...

Trade wars, like real wars, are an implicit bargaining tool before the start of formal negotiations Is a trade war a real war, or is it only a metaphor? Going by Chinese state media, the country ...

For Davies, this was a war where Russians could take heavy losses, rebuild their forces, and remain dangerous in the post-war environment. Clausewitz’s short treatise on a seemingly obscure ...

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 ...

In THE CLAUSEWITZ MYTH: Or the Emperor’s New Clothes (Chronos, 228 pp., paperback, $15.95), Gat contends that Clausewitz’s “On War” is influential mainly because it is so confusing.

Although Carl von Clausewitz is famous for his observation that war is a continuation of policy by other means, he also states the defense is intrinsically stronger in war than the offense because ...

Rather than represent a distinct way of war, Mao borrowed heavily from Clausewitz, who wrote that the “political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it.