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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Clausewitz, Karl von 1780-1831. Prussian army officer and military theorist who proposed the doctrines of total war and war as an instrument of policy. His treatise On War was published posthumously (1833).
WordNet 3.0
- n. Prussian general and military theorist who proposed a doctrine of total war and war as an extension of diplomacy (1780-1831)
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“Clausewitz is also "the preeminent military and political strategist of limited war in modern times.”
“I mean, you go into any of the United States armed forces staff colleges and pick up the common curriculum and you will see the name Clausewitz half a dozen times.”
“In the old days, such pronunciamentos were routine; war, to recall Clausewitz, was just the "continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.”
“But times have changed; imperialist war - business by other means to paraphrase Clausewitz - has become our major occupation and economic activity - and, no doubt, will in due time be our undoing, as history so clearly tells us.”
“The next chapter, Thermodynamic Warfare, concludes with Clausewitz, which is a stretch, of course, since the great Prussian died in”
“He not only studied military theorists such as Clausewitz and Sun-tzu: he's taught them at war colleges.”
“Though military studies have traditionally valued and absorbed the texts of classical war doctrine - such as Clausewitz's On War, Sun Tsu's The Art of War, even the exploits of Alexander the Great as recorded in Arrian and Plutarch -”
“Though military studies have traditionally valued and absorbed the texts of classical war doctrine - such as Clausewitz's”
“Though military studies have traditionally valued and absorbed the texts of classical war doctrine - such as Clausewitz's On War, Sun Tsu's The Art of War, even the exploits of Alexander the Great as recorded in Arrian and Plutarch - Islamic war doctrine, which is just as if not more textually grounded, is totally ignored.”
“Clausewitz also knew, however, that the objective in any war also had to be the disarming of one's foe.”
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