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

Every conflict makes military leaders unlearn some older lessons and learn new ones. However, the 'principles of war' distilled over space and centuries in time, remain unchanged. Any violation of ...

The war carries profound geostrategic, political & military implications for the broader region & the world Wars are the continuation of policy by other means. This famous dictum by Prussian military ...

We see, therefore, that War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means. All beyond this, which ...

The idea that diplomacy, if only conducted earnestly enough, can avert all conflict, is nothing more than wishful thinking ...

War is not simply a response or a signal. It’s a deliberate extension of policy, with cascading effects. And it demands a ...

As the Trump administration ponders joining Israel’s war with Iran, it should factor in its consideration such unintended consequences of war.

The Israel-Iran conflict is not just another diplomatic crisis. It is a test of the international system’s moral spine. If ...

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

BEHIND THE OBSERVATION THAT “war is a continuation of politics by other means,” the most famous idea of the military theoretician Carl von Clausewitz, is the “trinity” of the people, the government, ...

‘Fog of war’ is a phrase derived from Prussian thinker Carl von Clausewitz’s On War. In simple terms, it denotes the predicament faced by commanders when events in the battlefield present a confusing ...