Inspired by his combat experience in the Napoleonic wars, Carl von Clausewitz developed theories of warfare so effective that he is still the most quoted man on the battlefield.

Carl von Clausewitz wrote the three-volume On War as director of the Military Academy in Berlin in the 19th century. AKG-Images Vegetius, a Roman writer of the fourth century AD, said, “Let him ...

Carl von Clausewitz is known today as the West’s most influential military thinker. His seminal treatise On War lies at the heart of modern military doctrine. One recent article even compared ...

[This writing reflects satirical edits to quotes from Carl von Clausewitz’s ‘On War’] Observation Post is the Military Times one-stop shop for all things off-duty.

In the marginalia of his copy of On War, influential fighter pilot-theorist John Boyd laments that Carl von Clausewitz never thought about inducing friction for the adversary: “Overcome friction, ...

The famous and often reprinted portrait of the West’s most influential military theorist, Carl von Clausewitz, was painted by Wilhelm Wach in early 1830s. One of Prussia’s most fashionable artists of ...

Carl von Clausewitz, the renowned military theorist from two centuries ago, claimed that the purpose of military strategy is to implement policy in such a way as to bring about an end to fighting.

The Prussian military strategist Carl von Clausewitz was born in 1780, some 200 years before the invention of the Internet, but he would have implicitly understood almost everything it is doing to the ...