Book description
Writing at the time of Napoleon's greatest campaigns, Prussian
soldier and writer Carl von Clausewitz created this landmark treatise
on the art of warfare, which presented war as part of a coherent
system of political thought.
In line with Napoleon's own military actions, he illustrated the
need to annihilate the enemy and make a strong display of one's power
in an 'absolute war' without compromise. But he was also careful to
distinguish between war and politics, arguing that war could only be
justified when debate was no longer adequate, and that if undertaken,
its aim should ultimately be to improve the wellbeing of the nation.
