“War,” wrote Clausewitz, “is an extreme trial of strength and stamina.” It is “an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will” by spilling blood, and lots of it.

Although the contours of conflict have changed radically, the fog of war still blankets battlefields today. When Clausewitz’s ...

Alarmed by war, Clausewitz made two fundamental contributions to its study. First, he insisted on the importance of thinking over doctrine; and second, he believed that such thinking could be taught.

After Clausewitz died in 1831, his wife, Marie, edited his sprawling library of thoughts into a ten-volume treatise, which she titled On War. Clausewitz’s (and Marie’s) theories of warfare have become ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Are we losing the War on Terror? Five years after 9/11, the question is being asked with some urgency, and not by appeasers, defeatists, or the general run of whiner, but by individuals of respect ...