About war. Clausewitz K.F.

Karl Philip Gottfried von Clausevits (1780-1831) - Prussian military leader, military theorist and historian. A participant in the Napoleonic Wars, served in the Russian army in 1812-1814, fought near Borodin. The author of the fundamental study of the war, which had a huge impact on all the subsequent development of military thought.

The fundamental work of von Clausevitsa “On the War” is a treatise on military art, which sets out the views of the author to nature, goals and essence of the war, forms and methods of its conduct, was the result of a long -term study of military campaigns and campaigns from 1566 to 1815.