Free of technical jargon, and suitable for modern readers. On war is the most significant attempt in western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Tal leitura privilegia os aspectos decorrentes do entendimento. Since the works first appearance in 1832, it has been read throughout the world, and has stimulated generations of soldiers, statesmen, and intellectuals. Its coherence and ambition are unmatched by other military literature. Topics war guerra teoriadaguerra collection opensource language portuguese addeddate. Stoker never mentions a general theory at all, let alone that clausewitzs thought forms a coherent gestalt. He is most famous for his military treatise vom kriege, translated into english as on war. His most notable work, vom kriege on war, was unfinished at his death. The 2019 english version reflects some additional research and some new discoveries made since 2017.
He was commissioned to take part in the campaigns of the first coalition against revolutionary france. He served in the campaigns of 179394 on the rhine, after which he seems to have devoted some time to the study of the scientific branches of his profession. The ones marked may be different from the article in the profile. This fact alone tempts the professional strategist to compare these great works in their entirety in order to discover the extent to which they are actually contradictory, similar, or complementary.
Wallach as most would suspect when studying clausewitz is looking to establish relations between the military and politics. It has been translated into english several times as on war. Feb 26, 2006 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Graham 1808 1883 a classic work on military strategy by a veteran of the napoleonic wars. Clausewitz was a realist in many different senses and, while in. Although famous as a man of letters and ideas, he was also a soldier, involved in three dozen battles during the napoleonic wars. Please read our short guide how to send a book to kindle. Generally readers have concentrated on clausewitzs philosophy, theory. Before clausewitz left prussia in 1812 to join the russian army and resist napoleon, he prepared an essay on war to leave with the sixteen yearold prussian crown prince friedrich wilhelm later king friedrich wilhelm iv, r. I assumed that stoker would pretty much pick up where his predecessor left off, but this is not the case. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading principles of war. War, however, is not the action of a living force upon a lifeless mass total nonresistance would be no war at all but always the collision of two living forces, the ultimate aim of waging war, as formulated here, must be taken as applying to both sides.
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