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Although most of the confusion over " absolute war " is the result of sloppy reading ( or no reading ) of Clausewitz's actual discussion in Book One of On War ( the only part of Clausewitz's unfinished draft that he considered to be in finished form ), some careful readers point out that there are several references in later sections of the book ( which, somewhat confusingly, are derived from earlier drafts ) to " absolute war " that reflect an earlier conception of such war as simply the more extreme reaches of the forms that Napoleonic warfare had actually achieved.
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