On War (Complete Three Volumes)

Author: (German) Clausewitz / Military Academy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: On War was written by Clausewitz based on his summary of past wars, particularly the Napoleonic Wars. The book consists of 8 parts and 124 chapters. Additionally, it includes explanations, the author's preface, and materials from the military lectures Clausewitz delivered to the Crown Prince of Prussia from 1810 to 1812, as well as appendices on the organic distinction of armies, lecture plans and outlines on tactics or tactics. It is approximately 700,000 words in length.
Part I, On the Nature of War; Part II, On War Theory; Part III, General Strategy; Part IV, Battle; Part V, Armies; Part VI, Defense; Part VII, Offensive (Draft); Part VIII, War Plan (Draft). Although the book is an unfinished work, due to Clausewitz's attention to applying the dialectics of German classical philosophy to examine war, it elucidated major revolutionary ideas in war theory, such as: "War is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means."