On small war : Carl Von Clausewitz and People's War / Sibylle Scheipers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scheipers, Sibylle, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clausewitz, Carl von, 1780-1831.

Clausewitz, Carl von.

Clausewitz, Carl von, 1780-1831--Criticism and interpretation.

Low-intensity conflicts (Military science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Carl von Clausewitz has long been interpreted as the paradigmatic thinker of major interstate war. This book challenges this assumption by showing that Clausewitz was an ardent analyst of small war and integrated many aspects of his early writings on partisan warfare and people's war into his magnum opus, 'On War.' It reconstructs Clausewitz's intellectual development by placing it in the context of his engagement with the political and philosophical currents of his own times - German Idealism, Romanticism, and Humanism. The central question that Clausewitz and his contemporaries faced was how to defend Prussia and Europe against Napoleon's expansionist strategy.

Contents:

Introduction

Clausewitz and the eighteenth-century context of partisan warfare: the fusion of tactics and politik

"The most beautiful of wars": Clausewitz's perspective on people's war

Partisanship, demagoguery, and the decline of politik after 1815

From small wars to On War: Clausewitz's systematic integration of people's war into his theory of war

Conclusions.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-251981-6

0-19-183956-6

0-19-251980-8