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  2. Carl von Clausewitz - Wikipedia

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    Carl Philipp Gottfried (or Gottlieb) von Clausewitz [note 1] (/ ˈ k l aʊ z ə v ɪ t s / KLOW-zə-vits, German: [ˈkaʁl fɔn ˈklaʊzəvɪts] ⓘ; 1 July 1780 – 16 November 1831) [1] was a Prussian general and military theorist who stressed the "moral" (in modern terms meaning psychological) and political aspects of waging war.

  3. On War - Wikipedia

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    Vom Kriege (German pronunciation: [fɔm ˈkʁiːɡə]) is a book on war and military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830, and published posthumously by his wife Marie von Brühl in 1832. [1]

  4. Principles of war - Wikipedia

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    von Clausewitz, Carl, The most important principles of waging war to complete my course of instruction for his Royal Highness the Crown Prince (German: Die wichtigsten Grundsätze des Kriegführens zur Ergänzung meines Unterrichts bei Sr. Königlichen Hoheit dem Kronprinzen), 1812 Translated and edited by Hans W. Gatzke as "Principles of War ...

  5. Economy of force - Wikipedia

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    Economy of force is one of the nine Principles of War, based upon Carl von Clausewitz's approach to warfare. It is the principle of employing all available combat power in the most effective way possible, in an attempt to allocate a minimum of essential combat power to any secondary efforts.

  6. Center of gravity (military) - Wikipedia

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    The concept was first developed by Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian military theorist, in his work On War. [4]: 144, 151, 253, 331–4, 413–4, 430–1, 437, 444 After the end of the Vietnam War, interest in the idea was revitalized, resulting in several competing conceptualizations.

  7. Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman Behind the Making of On War

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    Marie von Brühl: Subject of Bellinger's biography. The book explores the life of Marie von Clausewitz, who was a member of the noble German Brühl family and married to military theorist, Carl von Clausewitz. After her husband's death in 1831, Marie edited and published her husband's books, the most famous one being, On War. Author Vanya ...

  8. Denise Naville - Wikipedia

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    De la guerre by Carl von Clausewitz. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1955. With a preface by Camille Rougeron and an introduction by Pierre Naville. Translated from the German Vom Kriege. L'Économie politique du rentier by Nikolai Bukharin

  9. Absolute war - Wikipedia

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    The concept of absolute war was a theoretical construct developed by the Prussian military theorist General Carl von Clausewitz in his famous but unfinished philosophical exploration of war, Vom Kriege (in English, On War, 1832). It is discussed only in the first half of Book VIII (there are only a couple of references to it elsewhere) and it ...