Vegetius, a Roman writer of the fourth century AD, said, “Let him who desires peace prepare for war.” Carl von Clausewitz sharpened the point: “The fact that slaughter is a horrifying spectacle must ...

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, ...

In his classic text “On War,” the great philosopher of war Carl von Clausewitz introduced the concept of the “center of gravity.” The center of gravity in war is “the hub of all power and movement, on ...

One of the most perceptive students of modern military thought, Antulio Echevarria, a retired colonel in the U.S. Army, who teaches at the U.S. Army Strategic Studies Institute, here takes a hard look ...

Argument of Karl von Clausewitz, German philosopher of war (1832): War is an act of force which theoretically can have no limits. War tends towards the ultimate exertion of forces. Moderation in war ...

Carl von Clausewitz is one of the most profound military thinkers of all time. His famous book On War is our bible and he is a god among military strategists. But we should stop teaching Clausewitz in ...