 | Carl von Clausewitz - Military art and science - 1908 - 388 pages
...INFLUENCE OF THIS VIEW ON THE RIGHT UNDERSTANDING OF MILITARY HISTORY, AND ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF THEORY. We see, therefore, in the first place, that under...circumstances War is to be regarded not as an independent >• -jhing, but as a political instrument ; and it is only by taking this point of view that we can... | |
 | United States Naval Institute - Marine engineering - 1912 - 1934 pages
...is the object. War is tin- means, and the means must always include the object in our conception. " We see, therefore, in the first place, that under all circumstances War is to hr regarded not as an independent thing, but as a political instrument ; and it is only by taking this... | |
 | United States - 1912 - 896 pages
...for determining both the aim of the military force and also the amount of effort to be made. * * * We see, therefore, in the first place, that under all circumstances war is to.be regarded not as an independent thing, but as a political instrument; and it is only by taking... | |
 | Royal Military College of Canada - Military art and science - 1998 - 326 pages
...the political object diverge from the aim of an ideal War, and the War appear to become political.21 circumstances War is to be regarded not as an independent...finding ourselves in opposition to all military history. . . . Secondly, this view shows us how wars must differ in character according to the nature of the... | |
 | Alexander Moseley - Philosophy - 2002 - 280 pages
...considerations and its direction, as the famous writer of On War, Carl von Clausewitz assumes: "We see . . . that under all circumstances War is to be regarded not as an independent thing, but as a political instruFor Clausewitz, even though war necessarily and always takes on its own nature (for it possesses... | |
 | Juan Pablo Dabove - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 395 pages
...of republican simplicity through him. See, for example, Luis Perez's Biografia de Rosas (1830). 20. "Under all circumstances War is to be regarded not...independent thing, but as a political instrument" (Clausewitz 1832, 121). 21.1 do not agree with Scavino's approach to the topic. However, he must be... | |
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War is to be regarded not as an independent thing, but as a political instrument [that is, an instrument related to both peace and war]; and it is only by taking this point of view that we can avoid finding ourselves in opposition to all military history. 