Perhaps the most important book on military strategy ever written, Carl von Clausewitz's On War has influenced generations of generals and politicians, has been blamed for the unprecedented death tolls in the First and Second World Wars, and is required reading at military academies to this day. But On War, which was never finished and was published posthumously, is obscure and fundamentally contradictory. What Clausewitz declares in book one, he discounts in book eight. The language is confusing and the relevance not always clear. For a book that has truly changed the world, On War is extremely difficult for the general reader to approach, to reconcile with itself, and to place in context.
Hew Strachan, one of the world's foremost military historians, answers these problems in this fascinating book. He explains how and why On War was written, elucidates what Clausewitz meant, and offers insight into the impact it made on conflict and its continued significance in our world today.
© 2007 Tantor Media, Inc. (Ljudbok): 9781400173891
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Ljudbok: 7 augusti 2007
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Perhaps the most important book on military strategy ever written, Carl von Clausewitz's On War has influenced generations of generals and politicians, has been blamed for the unprecedented death tolls in the First and Second World Wars, and is required reading at military academies to this day. But On War, which was never finished and was published posthumously, is obscure and fundamentally contradictory. What Clausewitz declares in book one, he discounts in book eight. The language is confusing and the relevance not always clear. For a book that has truly changed the world, On War is extremely difficult for the general reader to approach, to reconcile with itself, and to place in context.
Hew Strachan, one of the world's foremost military historians, answers these problems in this fascinating book. He explains how and why On War was written, elucidates what Clausewitz meant, and offers insight into the impact it made on conflict and its continued significance in our world today.
© 2007 Tantor Media, Inc. (Ljudbok): 9781400173891
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22 nov. 2023
För den som älskar historiska militära taktik studier är den här boken något för dig. Den här upplagan är dessutom kortare än andra men fortfarande svår att plöja. Senare delen refererar dem till tidigare upplagor. Men enligt mig bör man inte läsa/lyssna om dem sen dess att dem nämner vart i vilken upplaga man ska leta efter förändringar. Man bör inte heller se detta som ett komplement till nyare böcker men kan däremot läsa för nöje. Den här boken är mer av en analys utav nuläget och direk efter. Och bör inte heller ses som vinnande i framtiden, då man inte lägger lika mycket kraft vid infanteri nu för tiden, men mer på flygstridskrafter.
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