War, Peace, and International Relations. An Introduction to Strategic History

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Questions



  1. Why is Clausewitz’s On Warwidely regarded as the best book ever written on
    the theory of war?

  2. Does Clausewitz’s theory of war apply only to conflict between states?

  3. How do policy-makers and soldiers try to cope with ‘friction’?

  4. 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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