On War

The classic book by the nineteenth-century general whose “theory offers an intellectual foundation for the development of strategic thinking and action” (Lennart Souchon, Military Strategy Magazine).

Since he first set forth his ideas in the early 19th century, General Carl von Clausewitz’s theories of war have influenced generations of military leaders and policy makers throughout the Western world. On War is widely regarded as Clausewitz’s premier work on the philosophy of war and the firs...