NOUN
- Prussian general and military theorist who proposed a doctrine of total war and war as an extension of diplomacy (1780-1831)
How To Use Clausewitz In A Sentence
- Handel's comparisons of the works of Clausewitz and Sun Tzu are nothing short of brilliant.
- Given that the label 'nontrinitarian' is the result of a misreading of Clausewitz, in a sense it is devoid of proper analytical meaning. Chicago Boyz
- Until the 20th century, it simply did not occur to rulers that they could second every aspect of national life to the pursuit of their policies of which, as Clausewitz epigrammatically observed, war is merely a continuation.
- Whether civil wars, insurgency, organised crime or terrorism, van Creveld maintains that these forms of conflict are nontrinitarian and cannot therefore be examined through the lens of Clausewitzian theory. Chicago Boyz
- Carl von Clausewitz in "On War" stresses the offense is the best defense.
- Under the cumbrous heading ‘Possible Engagements Are to be Regarded as Real Ones Because of their Consequences’, Clausewitz explained further what he meant by this ‘priority of engagements’.
- It was the century of Clerk Maxwell, yes-I'm thinking mainly of his work on what we call cybernetics-and Babbage and Peirce and Ricardo and Clausewitz and a slew of other thinkers whom we're stifi living off of. There Will Be Time
- Clausewitz waxes almost poetic on the subject of friction, showering the reader with metaphors for the reality of war, something the reader may well never have experienced.
- Clausewitz observed that ‘if you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy to seek a solution elsewhere’.
- All art, all thought (for as Clausewitz himself expressed it, all thought is art), was a creative activity, not an imitative or derivative one.
