Clausewitz
Americannoun
noun
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If war is the continuation of politics by other means, as the military theorist Carl von Clausewitz famously claimed, then a war’s success must be judged by the achievement of its political goals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
The next day, when the delivery arrived at the nearby Clausewitz Barracks, the ammunition was found to be missing.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
But as Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz put it in the early 1800s: “Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2024
Carl von Clausewitz, the 19th-century strategist whose thinking underpins much of American and global military culture, famously wrote that “war is a continuation of politics by other means.”
From Slate ● May 5, 2023
The topics are war and Clausewitz, and we have a number of connectives, like however and yet.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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