The Fragile Balance of 18th-Century Europe The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1792–1815) erupted from a continent already scarred by […]
The Unlikely Rise of a Military Thinker Carl von Clausewitz harbored a modest ambition—to write a work that “would not […]
The Young Clausewitz and His Early Insights In 1805, a 24-year-old Prussian officer named Carl von Clausewitz first articulated a […]
The Philosophical Foundations of Clausewitzian Thought Carl von Clausewitz’s theory of war emerges from a rich intellectual tradition that dominated […]
The Problem of War Theory: A Historical Conundrum When Carl von Clausewitz set out to articulate his philosophy of war, […]
From Obscurity to the Battlefield: Clausewitz’s Early Life Carl von Clausewitz’s life spanned one of the most turbulent periods in […]