Carl von Clausewitz

Carl von Clausewitz
(July 1, 1780 – November 16, 1831)

Part of the Strategic Studies curriculum

Online Reading Material

Wikimedia Articles

• Carl von Clausewitz - Wikipedia entry.
• Carl von Clausewitz, On War, 1873.

Primary Texts

• Clausewitz, Carl von. Col. J. J. Graham, translator. Vom Kriege. On War, Complete eBook posted on Clausewitz Homepage.
• Clausewitz, Carl von., Ed. & Translated by Peter Paret & Daniel Moran, Two Letters on Strategy. Ft. Leavenworth: Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1984 (Also available in PDF format).
• Bassford, Christopher. Clausewitz in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America, 1815-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Full text on-line here.

Commentaries and Articles

• The Clausewitz Homepage (http://www.clausewitz.com) - Excellent website maintained by Pr. Christopher Bassford of the National War College. Contains texts from & on C. von Clausewitz, exhaustive bibliographies on Clausewitz in english, german, french...
• Gerhard Muhm , "German Tactics in the Italian Campaign", (tr. from "La tattica tedesca nella campagna d'Italia", in Linea gotica avamposto dei Balcani, a cura di Amedeo Montemaggi. Roma: Edizioni Civitas, 1993) http://www.larchivio.org/xoom/gerhardmuhm2.htm

Offline Reading Material

Primary Texts

• Clausewitz, Carl Von, tr. Graham, JJ (2004) On War (New York: Barnes and Noble) ISBN 0-7607-5597-3 - Oldest English translation
• Clausewitz, Carl Von, edited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret. On War, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1976, rev.1984, ISBN 0-691-05657-9 - Modern translation

For a note on the differences in the translations, see this topic's discussion page.

Commentaries and Articles

• Aron, Raymond, translated by Christine Booker and Norman Stone, Clausewitz: Philosopher of War. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983.
• Handel, Michael I. (ed.), Clausewitz and Modern Strategy. London: Frank Cass, 1986. ISBN 0-7146-4053-0
• Handel, Michael I., Masters of War. Classical Strategic Thought. London: Routledge, 2001 (third ed.; 1992, 1996). ISBN 071468132-6
• Heuser, Beatrice, Reading Clausewitz. London: Pimlico, 2002. ISBN 0-7126-6484-X
• Nooy, Gert de, The Clausewitzian Dictum and The Future of Western Military Strategy. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1997. ISBN 90-411-0455-0
• Paret, Peter. Clausewitz and the State: The Man, His Theories, and His Times. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976.
• Rothfels, Hans “Clausewitz” pages 93-113 from The Makers of Modern Strategy edited by Edward Mead Earle, Gordon A. Craig & Felix Gilbert, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1943.
• Smith, Hugh, On Clausewitz: A Study of Military and Political Ideas. London: Palgrave, 2005. ISBN 1-4039-3587-4

Biographical Works

• Parkinson, Roger. Clausewitz: A Biography. New York: Stein and Day, 1971.