Clausewitz
Americannoun
noun
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As Carl von Clausewitz famously put it, war is the continuation of politics by other means.
From Slate • Mar. 10, 2026
Over time, Breuer says, “the country that was home to Clausewitz and von Moltke” ended up with few people “thinking about grand strategy.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 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
We learned from Clausewitz that war is supposed to make sense in the context of a political objective.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2023
For that matter, how can Clausewitz be a product both of the Enlightenment and of the German Romantic movement, which arose in reaction to the Enlightenment?
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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