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On War

By Clausewitz, Carl Von

On War Social Sciences

On War

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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.
Product details
Number of Pages:
920
Release Date:
1993-05-25
Publication Date:
1993-05-25
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679420436
ISBN13:
9780679420439
Weight:
816 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
211 cm
Thickness:
46 cm
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