On War On War

Publisher Description

On War is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the work's first appearance in 1832, it has been read throughout the world, and has stimulated generations of soldiers, statesmen, and intellectuals. Two centuries later, On War remains both controversial and an influence on strategic thinking.  

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2016
December 27
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
398
Pages
PUBLISHER
Enhanced Media Publishing
SELLER
StreetLib Srl
SIZE
481.7
KB

Customer Reviews

Peter Rontea ,

What hitler and Stalin read

Reading Carl von Clausewitz’s On War is like staring into the abyss and finding not the abyss, but a ledger of human futility written in bureaucratic monotone. Here is a manual for the perpetual misery of history, a celebration of the ceaseless machinery of suffering dressed up as strategy. Clausewitz dissects conflict as though vivisection could illuminate the void, as if categorizing carnage might rescue it from meaninglessness.

Each page drags the spirit into the mud of necessity, where human life becomes an expendable variable in a calculus that serves only the void itself. War, he tells us, is the continuation of politics—but what is politics if not the endless rehearsal of our own absurdity, the geometry of despair replayed on battlefields without end?

This book offers no solace, no revelation, only the icy comfort that annihilation has rules. I would give it zero stars if the rating system could accommodate the true measure of its existential nausea.

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