Clausewitz

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• Clausewitz offers a number of illuminating thoughts about theory and its role that are applicable to this situation.

  Academic text (1992)

• Karl von Clausewitz's entire theory of war assumes an accurate assessment of the enemy.

  Academic text (2013)

• Clausewitz said that war is the natural extension of politics.

  The Contender (2000)

• Who was Carl von Clausewitz?

  Dinner Rush (2000)

• If war, as Clausewitz says, is politics by other means, then the Schlieffen plan was a dead letter.

  Academic text (2010)

• The great military strategist Clausewitz once said that "war is the continuation of politics by other means," but the opposite is true as well.

  Academic text (2010)

• Disciples of the famed Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz argue that military action should be an extension of strategy.

  Blog text (9)

• As the Prussian general Karl von Clausewitz remarked two centuries ago, "A conqueror is always a lover of peace."

  Academic text (2005)

• But when the public is disengaged, foreign policy becomes—to paraphrase Clausewitz—the continuation of domestic politics by other means.

  Academic text (2000)

• Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian military theorist, argued that war is a continuation of politics by other means.

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Karl von Clausewitz

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A Prussian army leader and military thinker known for the idea that war continues politics by other means

uses the short surname form rather than the full name

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