Page "Carl von Clausewitz" Paragraph 14

The degree to which Clausewitz managed to revise his manuscript to reflect that synthesis is the subject of much debate.

His final reference to war and Politik, however, goes beyond his widely quoted antithesis: " War is simply the continuation of political intercourse with the addition of other means.

We deliberately use the phrase " with the addition of other means " because we also want to make it clear that war in itself does not suspend political intercourse or change it into something entirely different.

In essentials that intercourse continues, irrespective of the means it employs.

The main lines along which military events progress, and to which they are restricted, are political lines that continue throughout the war into the subsequent peace.