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.
In the marginalia of his copy of On War, influential fighter pilot-theorist John Boyd laments that Carl von Clausewitz never thought about inducing friction for the adversary: “Overcome friction, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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Clausewitz had a pope
Nobody expected the Vatican to weigh in on autonomous weapons with something worth reading. Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, released May 15, covers artificial intelligence, ...
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