Clausewitz Goes Global

Author : Reiner Pommerin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783937885780

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Clausewitz goes global by Reiner Pommerin Pdf

This Festschrift commemorates the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Clausewitz-Society in the Federal Republic of Germany of 1961. This volume follows the intentions of the Clausewitz-Society as described by one of its former presidents: “to view the current tasks of politics and strategy as reflected in the insights of Carl von Clausewitz and thus examine which of the principles and insights formulated by Clausewitz are still important today and are thus endowed with an enduring validity”. The board and the members of the Clausewitz-Society therefore supported the idea to examine how and when the works of Clausewitz have been interpreted in selected countries of our world; further, the goal here has been to analyze the role that Clausewitz’s thought still plays in these countries. This book is the paperback version of the 2011 published hardcover.

Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : EAN:4066339538344

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On War by Carl von Clausewitz Pdf

"On War" by Carl von Clausewitz (translated by J. J. Graham). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Hew Strachan,Andreas Herberg-Rothe
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199232024

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Clausewitz in the Twenty-First Century by Hew Strachan,Andreas Herberg-Rothe Pdf

The volume considers Clausewitz's timeless On War against the background of actual armed conflict. With scholars from a range of disciplines and countries, it throws new light on a classic text and contemporary issues.

Author : Hew Strachan
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782392170

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Carl von Clausewitz's On War by Hew Strachan Pdf

On War by Carl von Clausewitz was first published in Germany after the Napoleonic Wars. One of the most significant treatises on military strategy ever written, it is still prescribed at various military academies today. Its description of 'absolute war' and its insistence on the centrality of battle to war have been blamed for the level of destruction involved in both the First and Second World Wars. Hew Strachan's accessible book challenges the popular misconceptions that surround On War. He dispels the notion that for Clausewitz policy necessarily shapes war, asserting instead that war has its own dynamic and that its reciprocal effects can themselves shape policy. Strachan returns to the very heart of On War to recover the arguments at its core; in the process challenging the received wisdom about this cornerstone of military strategy.

Author : Michael I. Handel
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : 9780714632940

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Clausewitz and Modern Strategy by Michael I. Handel Pdf

Clausewitz and Modern Strategy is the first-ever volume devoted to the influence and interpretation of Clausewitz' On War to be published in the English language. Among all the better-known works on military theory in Western civilization, it is Carl von Clausewitz' magnum opus that has been able to withstand every kind of political, social, economic, and technological change since it first appeared in 1832 and will always remain of more than purely historical interest. This collection of essays, first presented at an international conference on Clausewitz at the US Army War College in April 1985, spans every possible aspect of Clausewitz' influence. It is grouped into three parts. The first addresses the issue of whether an early nineteenth-century book on war is still pertinent today in an era when war - more than any other human activity - has been revolutionized by modern technology. In the second part, analyses are made of selected theoretical concepts and other specific subjects discussed by Clausewitz, ranging from chance and uncertainty, space and time, and intelligence in war to guerrilla warfare. The final part takes a critical look at Clausewitz' influence on the development of strategic doctrines in several European countries, as well as the degree to which his theories were not only understood but misunderstood by various military thinkers. In many instances, Clausewitz' readers interpreted his ideas out of context and selectively employed his theories to match their own preconceived notions. Like many other works on political theory and philosophy, On War is not always easy to read and understand. Clausewitz and Modern Strategy provides an excellent introduction to the complex world of Clauswitzian thought, offering a better overall understanding of Clausewitz' key concepts, his system of thinking, and his influence on the study of modern war. It is indispensable reading for all students, military historians, strategic analysts and thinkers.

Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486136257

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Principles of War by Carl von Clausewitz Pdf

DIVThe most cited, most controversial, and most modern book on warfare. The author examines moral and psychological aspects of war: courage, audacity, self-sacrifice, the importance of morale and public opinion, more. /div

Author : Carl von Clausewitz,Christopher Daase
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198737131

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Clausewitz on Small War by Carl von Clausewitz,Christopher Daase Pdf

Widely recognized as one of the most important theorists of warfare, important strands of Carl von Clausewitz's thinking on the subject are not widely known. In 'Clausewitz on Small War', Christopher Daase and James W. Davis begin to address this unfortunate state of affairs. In this volume they have assembled and translated Clausewitz's most important texts devoted to the analysis of asymetric, unconventional, guerrilla, and small-unit warfare, including Clausewitz's "Lectures on Small War", held at the Prussian War College in 1810 and 1811.

Author : Beatrice Heuser
Publisher : Random House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781448113958

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Reading Clausewitz by Beatrice Heuser Pdf

Clausewitz's On War, first published in 1832, remains the most famous study of the nature and conditions of warfare. Contemporaries found him 'endearing' or 'totally unpalatable', while later generations called him 'the father of modern strategical study', whose tenets have 'eternal relevance', or dismissed him as outdated. Was it really he who made the discovery that warfare is a continuation of politics? Was he the 'Mahdi of mass and mutual massacre', in part responsible for the mass slaughter of the First World War, as Liddell Hart contended? Can the idea of total war be traced back to him? Complex and often misunderstood, Clausewitz has fascinated and influenced generations of politicians and strategic thinkers. Beatrice Heuser's study is the first book, not only on how to read Clausewitz, but also on how others have read him - from the Prussian and German masters of warfare of the late nineteenth century through to the military commanders of the First World War, through Lenin and Mao Zedong to strategists in the nuclear age and of guerrilla warfare. The result is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the work and influence of the greatest classic on the art of war.

Author : Antulio J. Echevarria II
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199231911

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Clausewitz and Contemporary War by Antulio J. Echevarria II Pdf

An engaging new interpretation of Clausewitz's classic On War and its relevance to contemporary world conflicts.

Author : Hew Strachan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131698586

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Carl Von Clausewitz's On War by Hew Strachan Pdf

On War by Carl von Clausewitz was first published in Germany after the Napoleonic Wars. One of the most significant treatises on military strategy ever written, it is still prescribed at various military academies today. Its description of 'absolute war' and its insistence on the centrality of battle to war have been blamed for the level of destruction involved in both the First and Second World Wars. Hew Strachan's accessible book challenges the popular misconceptions that surround On War. He dispels the notion that for Clausewitz policy necessarily shapes war, asserting instead that war has its own dynamic and that its reciprocal effects can themselves shape policy. Strachan returns to the very heart of On War to recover the arguments at its core, in the process challenging the received wisdom about this cornerstone of military strategy. Hew Strachan is one of the world's foremost historians of war.

Author : Christopher Coker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190656539

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Rebooting Clausewitz by Christopher Coker Pdf

Rebooting Clausewitz offers an entirely new take on the work of history's greatest theorist of war. Written for an undergraduate readership that often struggles with Clausewitz's master work On War--a book that is often considered too philosophical and impenetrably dense--it seeks to unpack some of Clausewitz's key insights on theory and strategy. In three fictional interludes Clausewitz attends a seminar at West Point; debates the War on Terror at a Washington think tank; and visits a Robotics Institute in Santa Fe where he discusses how scientists are reshaping the future of war. Three separate essays situate Clausewitz in the context of his times, discuss his understanding of the culture of war, and the extent to which two other giants--Thucydides and Sun Tzu--complement his work. Some years ago the philosopher W.B. Gallie argued that Clausewitz needed to be 'saved from the Clausewitzians'. Clausewitz doesn't need saving and his commentators have contributed a great deal to our understanding of On War's seminal status as a text. But too often they tend to conduct a conversation between themselves. This book is an attempt to let a wider audience into the conversation.

Author : Sibylle Scheipers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192519818

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On Small War by Sibylle Scheipers Pdf

Carl von Clausewitz has long been interpreted as the paradigmatic thinker of major interstate war. This book challenges this assumption by showing that Clausewitz was an ardent analyst of small war and integrated many aspects of his early writings on partisan warfare and people's war into his magnum opus, On War. It reconstructs Clausewitz's intellectual development by placing it in the context of his engagement with the political and philosophical currents of his own times - German Idealism, Romanticism, and Humanism. The central question that Clausewitz and his contemporaries faced was how to defend Prussia and Europe against Napoleon's expansionist strategy. On the one hand, the nationalization of war that had occurred as a result of the French Revolution could only be countered by drawing the people into the defence of their own countries. On the other, this risked a descent into anarchy and unchecked terror, as the years 1793 and 1794 in France had shown. Throughout his life Clausewitz remained optimistic that the institution of the Prussian Landwehr could achieve both an effective defence of Prussia and a social and political integration of its citizens. Far from leaving behind his early advocacy of people's war, Clausewitz integrated it systematically into his mature theory of war. People's war was war in its existential form; it risked escalating into 'absolute war'. However, if the threat of defensive people's war had become a standard option of last resort in early-nineteenth century Europe, it could also function as a safeguard of the balance of power.

Author : Antulio Joseph Echevarria
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015056816849

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Globalization and the Nature of War by Antulio Joseph Echevarria Pdf

Author : Antulio Joseph Echevarria
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050552663

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After Clausewitz by Antulio Joseph Echevarria Pdf

"But Echevarria disputes this traditional view and convincingly shows that these theorists - Boguslawski, Goltz, Schlieffen, Hoening, and their American and European counterparts - were not the architects of outmoded theories. In fact, they duly appreciated the implications of the vast advances in modern weaponry (as well as in transportation and communications) and set about finding solutions that would restore offensive maneuver to the battlefield."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Lennart Souchon
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030460280

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Strategy in the 21st Century by Lennart Souchon Pdf

This book presents a detailed discussion of Clausewitz's principal lines of thought and methods of implementation. It elaborates on his main objective of laying a foundation for the education of up-and-coming creative, knowledgeable and experienced future leaders. The book encourages reflection and study in strategic thinking in order to transform knowledge into genuine capability. The book explores the question of what a twenty-first-century decision-maker can learn from these strategic lines of thought. It bridges the gap between philosophical theory and strategic interaction in conflicts with an equal opponent. Readers learn to understand and employ the clash of wills, attack and defence, and friction, and in essence the necessary virtues of a strategic commander. The findings presented help to identify the essential features in complex decision-making situations and developing possible courses of strategic action from a holistic standpoint. As such, the book is a must read for strategists, business practitioners, and scholars of political leadership and management interested in a better understanding of strategy and decision-making.