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 ...

As Mark Twain reputedly quipped, it’s not so much what we know that gets us in trouble; it’s what we know that just ain’t so. How much of what we know about martial ventures is wrong? In the naval ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 famous and often reprinted portrait of the West’s most influential military theorist, Carl von Clausewitz, was painted by Wilhelm Wach in early 1830s. One of Prussia’s most fashionable artists of ...

At a time when conflicts are unfolding across the world, and geopolitical tensions are rising amid the breakdown of dialogue and diplomacy, people may turn to the insights of Carl von Clausewitz to ...

A half century ago, two computers at UCLA and Stanford were linked together into the first computer network. It was called ARPANET, after the military research lab that funded it. In the years since ...

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