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[[Image:Clausewitz.jpg|right|thumb|Carl von Clausewitz]]

[[Image:Clausewitz.jpg|right|thumb|Carl von Clausewitz]]

'''Carl Phillip Gottfried von Clausewitz''' (1780-1831)<ref> also known as: Carl Maria von Clausewitz, Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz, Karl von Clausewitz</ref> was an influential Prussian military theorist. His major work ''On War'' remains an influential treatise on military and general strategy.  

'''Carl von Clausewitz''' (1780-1831)<ref> also known as: Carl Phillip Gottfried von Clausewitz, Carl Maria von Clausewitz, Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz, Karl von Clausewitz</ref> was an influential Prussian military theorist. His major work ''On War'' remains a central treatise on military and general strategy in the 21st century.  

Clausewitz stressed the moral and political aspects of war. His great work ''On War'' was unfinished at his death. He used a romantic or Hegelian conception of warfare, stressing the dialectic of how opposite factors interact, and noting how unexpected new developments unfolded under the "fog of war" and called for rapid decisions by alert commanders. Clausewitz saw history as a complex check on abstractions that did not accord with experience. In opposition to his great intellectual rival [[Antoine-Henri Jomini]] he argued war could not be quantified or graphed or reduced to mapwork and graphs.  Clausewitz had many aphorisms, of which the most famous is, "War is not merely a political act, but also a political instrument, a continuation of political relations, a carrying out of the same by other means," a working definition of war which has won wide acceptance.  

Clausewitz stressed the moral and political aspects of war. His great work ''On War'' was unfinished at his death. He used a romantic or Hegelian conception of warfare, stressing the dialectic of how opposite factors interact, and noting how unexpected new developments unfolded under the "fog of war" and called for rapid decisions by alert commanders. Clausewitz saw history as a complex check on abstractions that did not accord with experience. In opposition to his great intellectual rival [[Antoine-Henri Jomini]] he argued war could not be quantified or graphed or reduced to mapwork and graphs.  Clausewitz had many aphorisms, of which the most famous is, "War is not merely a political act, but also a political instrument, a continuation of political relations, a carrying out of the same by other means," a working definition of war which has won wide acceptance.