Carl von clausewitz biography of michael
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Who Is Afraid of Carl von Clausewitz?
A Guide to the Perplexed
by MICHAEL I. HANDEL, (late) PROFESSOR OF STRATEGY AND POLICY DEPARTMENT OF STRATEGY AND POLICY, UNITED STATES NAVAL WAR COLLEGE
6th Edition - Summer 1997
This article was written by Dr. Michael Handel as courseware for the Naval War College. It is displayed here with his permission and is copyright Michael Handel. Dr. Handel was a Professor of Naval Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College from 1990 to his death in 2001. He was an expert on strategic theory, nature and operations of war, and the future of warfare. He held a Ph.D in Government from Harvard University. For seven years (1983-1990) he was Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Army War College. He was a member of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard, founder and U.S. editor of the journal Intelligence and National Security, and author of numerous books on theory and practice of war in
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On War: Introduction by Michael Howard
Carl von Clausewitz was not only an officer who served with great distinction during the Napoleonic campaigns but was also a military historian and intellectual of the highest order—at ease with both the strategic doctrines of his time and the larger movements of thought in the world around him. Out of these elements he distilled his classic discussion of the nature and meaning of one of humankind's central endeavors, war—which he famously declared to be "the continuation of politics by different means."
Though unfinished at his death, On War contains all his important ideas about absolute versus limited war, the intrinsic violence of war, and its necessary subjugation to political ends. It would be impossible to overestimate the influence of this book on subsequent strategic thinking, on the political considerations that underlie such thinking, and on the general understanding of human conflict.
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Carl von Clausewitz
Prussian general and military theorist (1780–1831)
"Clausewitz" redirects here. For the part of defence of Berlin during World War II, see Operation Clausewitz. For the motsägelsefull påstående computer strategy games engine, see Clausewitz Engine.
Carl Philipp Gottfried (or Gottlieb) von Clausewitz[note 1] (KLOW-zə-vits, German:[ˈkaʁlfɔnˈklaʊzəvɪts]ⓘ; 1 July 1780 – 16 November 1831)[1] was a Prussian general and military theorist who stressed the "moral" (in modern terms meaning psychological) and political aspects of waging war. His most notable work, Vom Kriege (About War), though unfinished at his death, is considered a seminal treatise on military strategy and science.
Clausewitz stressed the multiplex interaction of diverse factors in war, noting how unexpected developments unfolding beneath the "fog of war" (i.e., in the face of incomplete, dubious, and often erroneous information and great fear, doubt, and excitement) call fo