Clausewitz
Americannoun
noun
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But wars are also projections beyond the border of political contests at home, to rephrase the great Clausewitz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 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 other children looked to him as their strategist, their Clausewitz, and Matthew said nothing as they drove up to the main gate of the Ravenel Air Station.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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