It’s very hard indeed to think of a single thinker or writer who looms as large over their chosen field of study as Carl von Clausewitz. Clausewitz, on the odd chance you haven’t heard of him in this ...

“One of the glories of history is that it can never be definitive; good history is history on which others can build.” So wrote Peter Paret — the dean of American Clausewitz studies — in the preface ...

London: Chronos Books, 2024. Pp. vi, 228. Notes, index. £13.99/$15.95 pape. ISBN: 1803416211 Till 1826, claims Gat, Clausewitz believed that Napoleon’s all out war represented the true nature of war.

But can reading an analysis of a limited conflict fought by men in laced coats and powdered wigs really inform our view of war in the twenty-first century? It can, and it should. Why? In any future ...

Vegetius, a Roman writer of the fourth century AD, said, “Let him who desires peace prepare for war.” Carl von Clausewitz sharpened the point: “The fact that slaughter is a horrifying spectacle must ...

They’re interesting bookends: Carl von Clausewitz the analytic Prussian, laying bare the workings of human conflict, and Leo Tolstoy, the great writer and anarcho-pacifist, urging resistance to ...

The debate about the civil–military divide remains a constant topic within our post-modern society. The arguments usually circle around how to help civilian leaders understand military culture, ...

Last week we kicked off the winter term in the Naval War College’s Intermediate Level Course, dubbed Strategy & War. We spend the first week of seminars with the giants of strategic theory, namely ...

The writings of Gene Sharp, an 83-year-old former Harvard researcher, include the widely distributed and translated how-to manual "From Dictatorship to Democracy" and have been used to promote ...