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 ...

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 ...

Okay, I exaggerate. Nichols and Schwandt aren’t quite Shakespearean heirs to the Southampton rebellion, but I disagree with their call to limit/end military instruction on the theories of Carl Von ...

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 ...

“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 ...

LAST month we asked our readers to suggest a name for our new blog, covering defence, security and diplomacy. The very first suggestion, from a user called Tzimisces, also proved to be clear favourite ...

Our country is at war in two distinct theaters and, as President Obama takes office, major decisions about both campaigns must be made soon. U.S. foreign and defense policy have been increasingly ...

Last time we dived into Clausewitz and began looking at how his theories of warfare can be applied to gaming. We investigated the impact of moral forces on combat and I got a bit ahead of myself. When ...