Carl Von Clausewitz'S On War by Hew Strachan

• This is the latest title in our books that shook the world series and is an in-depth analysis of "Carl Von Clausewitz's classic book on War", which was first published in Germany after the Napoleonic Wars and is one of the most significant treatises on military strategy ever written.
• Hew Strachan's biography of on war challenges the popular misconceptions that surround the classic work and dispels the notion that for Clausewitz, policy necessarily shaped war.
• It asserts that war has its own dynamic and that its reciprocal effects can themselves shape policy.
• Strachan who is a Chichele Professor of History of War at the Oxford University, analyses the core of on war and challenges the perceived wisdom about this cornerstone of military strategy.
• over-indulgence with the Howard-Paret interpretation of Clausewitz's major English-translated book, "On War;" and (2) it provides additional arguments that support the relevance of Clausewitz's thoughts to current times and events. Of course, Clausewitz should be relevant since he was digging into the psychology of war as much as its practice.
• Human psychological evolution changes much more slowly than the technologies of war; thus if Clausewitz got the psychology right, his ideas should endure. According to Strachan, they do. However, Strachan's most salient insight is this: that Clausewitz never intended to predict or forecast war in the future.
• He only tried to explain it in the present. That Clausewitz's explanations remain fresh is testament to the depth of his understanding of the dark side of the human psyche

About the Author

Hew Strachan is Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of All Souls College. He has published widely on war: his most recent works include The First World War: Volume 1: To Arms, published in 2001 to widespread critical acclaim, and The First World War: A New Illustrated History, which was published in 2003.