Talk:Carl von Clausewitz

Pasted this from the English 'pedia, no verification as to the accuracy of these translations as I speak no German, for that matter have not read any translations. Ellsworth

The name Karl von Clausewitz, should be changed to Carl von Clausewitz.. see the original wikipedia article and also spelling used by the world's leading authorities on the man, Peter Paret and Sir Michael Howard in many different articles, in particular, Paret's article in 'Makers of Modern Strategy' is extremely useful. Also clausewitz.com, does not make this mistake.

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The quote "War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale." is definitly not a Clausewitz-quote. It's Jomini. Clausewitz wrote "On War" to counter Jominis statement that war and duels were comparable. Clausewitz makes some statements where a battle can be seen as a duel, such as "the purpose of the defence is to parry the offencive" or something to the similar. But it's entirely on a tactic scale, which war can not be considered.

This is not true: Clausewitz calls war a duel in his definition of war, point 2 in his book "On War"

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 * Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.


 * In war the result is never final.


 * Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.


 * Theory should be study, not doctrine.

Continuation of policy: "with other means" vs. "by other means"
It's argued convincingly that there is a significant semantic change in the official translation, could we correct it to more precisely correspond the original? Ain92 (talk) 12:25, 2 March 2019 (UTC)