In the pantheon of military thinkers and grand…

“A successful special operation defies conventional wisdom by using a small force to defeat a much larger or well-entrenched opponent. This book develops a…

— William H. McRaven

“Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.” Carl von Clausewitz”

— Scott J Roberts

“political environment. But there is always a thin line between a peaceful election and armed conflict. We acknowledge this close relationship in the way…

— Scott Farris

“This discussion of war then lays the foundation for an understanding of change as a process and as an essential component of military affairs.…

— John M. House

“Daily, the media report human activity in which force is used to settle disputes. Since 1945 not a single day has gone by without…

— Eugene R. Wittkopf

While von Clausewitz said, 'War is the continuation of policy (politics) by other means,' when considering the welfare of our men and women in…

— Joe Heck

One might almost say, to adapt von Clausewitz, that modern warfare is PR by other means. And war-winning strategies mean that modern armies most…

— David Frum

“Clausewitz’s posthumously published work On War, shaped by the age of Napoleonic warfare, is best known for the concept of the friction and the…

— Sebastian Gorka

“It was over a century and a half ago that Clausewitz made his now famous remarks on the relationship of war to policy. Most…

— Barry Posen

“The literature of war and its strategies is poverty-stricken. Of all the men who have written on the subject of war, I think that…

— J.C. Wylie

“Modifying Clausewitz’ aphorism—war is the continuation of diplomacy by other means—one could say that in ideologically divided countries civil war is but the continuation…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet,…

— Jim Mattis

“The classical soldier’s beliefs and behavior patterns are all summarized in the central theme of Clausewitz, who tells us that his study of war…

— J.C. Wylie

“The war of 1914–18 was the absolute negation of everything that Clausewitz had stood”

— Christopher Munro Clark

Digital warfare, in the Clausewitz definition as 'the continuation of policy by other means,' reached Western public consciousness via my own country, Estonia, in…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves