• Why is he so famous? • What are Clausewitz's ideas? • What Have We Learned • Conclusion
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Carl von Clausewitz
– Prussian officer born in 1780.
– He came from a middle-class social background. – Clausewitz first entered combat as a cadet at the age of 13. – He served as a staff officer, and as a prominent military educator. – rose to the rank of Major- General at 38.
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Cont…
– Married and moved in Berlin.
– wrote a military philosophy book “ On War”. – Resigned his commission in 1812 and joined the Russian Army to fight Napoleon. – Idea’s of “on war” were heavily influenced by the mass popular warfare of the French Revolutionary period. – Died in 1831 and his wife published his On War in 1832.
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Why is he so famous?
• Clausewitz's fame is largely due to the
importance and influence of his book ”On War”. • He wrote on the theory of warfare and strategy that stressed the moral and political aspects of war. • His theories attract the interest of many.
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What are Clausewitz's ideas? • Pure War: Elimination or Complete Subjugation of the Enemy by Force. • Real War: All conditions and factors that impede or block the realization of “Pure War”. • The political objectives of using force by the state is typically the principal constraint or limit to “Pure War”. • “Pure War” as such is politically and morally without sense or meaning because all other human values, interests, or preferences are excluded. BERILMU MEMIMPIN BERKORBAN Cont…
• A system of nation-states, the monopoly of
violence under conditions in which no power or authority rules the system, has implicitly a tendency to move toward pure war if conflict arises between states. • “War of all against all” is projected by Clausewitz from an individual or group level to state relations and conflict.
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Cont..
• Force is the means of war, but to impose our will
on the enemy is its object. • To secure that object we must render the enemy powerless, and that in theory, is the true aim of warfare. • That aim takes the place of the object, discarding it as something not actually part of war itself.
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What Have We Learned
• The state is the principal unit of political
organization of the world’s diverse and divided populations. • Each state claims to be sovereign: that is, it is the final authority over the population living within a defined territory over which it rules.
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Cont…
• The result is a state political system that is in
anarchy, since there is no world government that has either the authority to rule the states of the system. • Thus the nation-state system is in principle a warfare system.
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Conclusion
• Clausewitz is a very talented leader
• He has came out with a great philosophy that is being used until today. • Clausewitz ideas have been widely influential in military theory.