Questions
- Why is Clausewitz’s On Warwidely regarded as the best book ever written on
the theory of war? - Does Clausewitz’s theory of war apply only to conflict between states?
- How do policy-makers and soldiers try to cope with ‘friction’?
- To what extent is war ‘the realm of chance’?
Further reading
A. Gat The Origins of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to Clausewitz(Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 19 8 9).
C. Gray ‘Clausewitz, History, and the Future Strategic World’, in W. Murray and R. H. Sinnreich
(eds), The Past as Prologue: The Importance of History to the Military Profession
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
M. I. Handel Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought, 3rd edn (London: Frank Cass, 2001).
—— (ed.) Clausewitz and Modern Strategy(London: Frank Cass, 19 8 6).
B. Heuser Reading Clausewitz(London: Pimlico, 2002).
M. Howard Clausewitz(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 19 8 3).
P. Paret Clausewitz and the State(New York: Oxford University Press, 1976).
—— Understanding War: Essays on Clausewitz and the History of Military Power(Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992).
—— (ed.) Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age(Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 19 8 6).
H. Smith On Clausewitz: A Study of Military and Political Ideas(Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005).
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