On War

Karl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz 1780—1831 – Prussian military leader, military theorist, and historian. A participant in the Napoleonic Wars, he served in the Russian army from 1812 to 1814, fighting at Borodino. He is the author of a foundational study on war that has had a tremendous influence on the subsequent development of military thought. The fundamental work of von Clausewitz On War - a treatise on military art - presents the author's views on the nature, goals, and essence of war, the forms and methods of conducting it, and is the result of many years of studying military campaigns from 1566 to 1815.