Bookbot

On war

Boekbeoordeling

Meer over het boek

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.

Een boek kopen

On war, Carl von Clausewitz

Taal
Jaar van publicatie
1993
product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
(Hardcover)
Zodra we het ontdekt hebben, sturen we een e-mail.

Betaalmethoden

4,0
Zeer goed
11543 Beoordelingen

We missen je recensie hier.

Titel
On war
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Knopf
Jaar van publicatie
1993
Formaat
Hardcover
Aantal pagina's
912
ISBN10
0679420436
ISBN13
9780679420439
Reeks
Eerste editie
1832
Oorspronkelijke titel
Vom Kriege
Beoordeling
4 van 5
Aantekening
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.