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“On War” by Carl von Clausewitz
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“Dead Carl”, as an old professor used to say, was a Prussian general at during the Napoleonic Wars who spent his life developing this work as his seminal treatise on war itself. Unlike Sun Tzu and many other military theorists, Clausewitz doesn’t try to create a how-to guide for winning wars. Instead, he develops a framework for describing the universal elements of all wars: violence, chance, & politics. Clausewitz is most famous for his assertion that war is merely “politics by other means”. Personally, I found his economic analogies fascinating: just as money is used to communicate commercial value, so force is used to communicate political value between states. Clausewitz’ use of the dialectic makes this a tough read at times, but the insights are valuable even in modernity. Give ol’ Dead Carl a fighting chance 💀
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“Dead Carl”, as an old professor used to say, was a Prussian general at during the Napoleonic Wars who spent his life developing this work as his seminal treatise on war itself. Unlike Sun Tzu and many other military theorists, Clausewitz doesn’t try to create a how-to guide for winning wars. Instead, he develops a framework for describing the universal elements of all wars: violence, chance, & politics. Clausewitz is most famous for his assertion that war is merely “politics by other means”. Personally, I found his economic analogies fascinating: just as money is used to communicate commercial value, so force is used to communicate political value between states. Clausewitz’ use of the dialectic makes this a tough read at times, but the insights are valuable even in modernity. Give ol’ Dead Carl a fighting chance 💀