Among many strands of thought, three stand out as essential to Clausewitz's concept:

Instead of this, Barnett argues that Carl von Clausewitz's " Theory of War " as a continuation of politics still holds true, giving examples such as the Provisional IRA's campaign (" the classic contemporary demonstration of Clausewitzian principles in action ") and Yugoslavia (" where Nato has simply frozen a war which will certainly break out again if and when the intervention forces leave ").

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.

The " dualism " of Clausewitz's view of war ( i. e., that wars can vary a great deal between the two " poles " he proposed, based on the political objectives of the opposing sides and the context ) seems simple enough, but few commentators have proven willing to accept this crucial variability — they insist that Clausewitz " really " argued for one end of the scale or the other.

Clausewitz's Christian names are sometimes given in non-German sources as " Carl Philipp Gottlieb " or " Carl Maria ", because of reliance on mistaken source material, conflation with his wife's name, Marie, or mistaken assumptions about German orthography.

Clausewitz's emphasis on the inherent superiority of the defense suggests that habitual aggressors are likely to end up as failures.

Rather, the Trinity of forces that drive the course of real-world war in Clausewitz's view are 1 ) violent emotion, 2 ) the interplay of chance and probability, and 3 ) political calculations driven by reason.

Clausewitz's family claimed descent from the Barons of Clausewitz in Upper Silesia, which was eventually confirmed, but now is doubted by scholars.

" The second, often treated as Clausewitz's ' bottom line ,' is in fact merely his dialectical antithesis: " War is merely the continuation of policy by other means.

: a.: For example, writing in his introduction to Sun Tzu's Art of War, B. H. Liddell Hart stated that " Civilization might have been spared much of the damage suffered in the world wars of this century if the influence of Clausewitz's monumental tome On War, which molded European military thought in the era preceding the First World War, had been blended with and balanced by a knowledge of Sun Tzu's exposition on The Art of War.

" This comment is tempered by the comment that the " ill-effects of Clausewitz's teaching arose largely from his disciples ' too shallow and too extreme interpretation of it ," but it remains an influential criticism.

When friendly persuasion failed to secure their interests, the British were not above ( to borrow Karl von Clausewitz's phrase ) " continuing diplomacy by other means ".

He made a distinction between two possible strategies in war: attrition and annihilation ( in German, Ermattungsstrategie and Niederwerfungsstrategie, respectively ), derived from Clausewitz's distinctions between strategies seeking limited objectives and strategies aimed at rendering one's opponent militarily helpless, the latter often confused with the concept of " Total War " ( a term Clausewitz did not use ) advocated by Ludendorff and rejected by Delbrück during WWI.

* Clausewitz's On War ( 1832 ) (" war is the continuation of politics by other means ")

Another German strategist of the period was Hans Delbrück who expanded on Clausewitz's concept of " limited warfare " to produce a theory on the " strategy of exhaustion ".

Keegan was described as " profoundly mistaken " and Bassford stated that " Nothing anywhere in Keegan's work – despite his many diatribes about Clausewitz and ' the Clausewitzians ' – reflects any reading whatsoever of Clausewitz's own writings.

The editor of the archduke's work is able to make but a feeble defense against Clausewitz's reproach that Charles attached more value to ground than to the annihilation of the foe.

His thinking is often described as Hegelian because of his references to dialectical thinking but, although he probably knew Hegel, Clausewitz's dialectic is quite different and there is little reason to consider him a disciple.

" Carl Philipp Gottfried " appears on Clausewitz's tombstone and thus is most likely to be correct.

Clausewitz's father was once a lieutenant in the Prussian army and held a minor post in the Prussian internal revenue service.

It clearly contains material written at different stages in Clausewitz's intellectual evolution, producing some significant contradictions between different sections, and the sequence and precise character of that evolution is a source of much debate.

Clausewitz's work is still studied today, demonstrating its continued relevance.

The word " strategy " had only recently come into usage in modern Europe, and Clausewitz's definition is quite narrow: " the use of engagements for the object of war.

Clausewitz's " fascinating trinity " ( wunderliche Dreifaltigkeit ) comprises ( 1 ) a blind impulse, located in the people and their passions, including hate and enmity, ( 2 ) free will, which belongs to the army and its leader and includes chance and probability, and ( 3 ) pure reason, which pertains to the government.

Under Conner's tutelage, he studied military history and theory ( including Carl von Clausewitz's On War ), and later cited Conner's enormous influence on his military thinking, saying in 1962 that " Fox Conner was the ablest man I ever knew.

In any case, revolutionaries like Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, and Mao Zedong had no trouble adapting Clausewitz's concepts to their own purposes.

Much of Clausewitz's thinking was based on his experience as a Prussian war planner concerned with how to use popular forces in an insurrectionary struggle against the much-superior French forces which occupied Prussia after 1806 — how, in short, to wage a " Spanish War in Germany.

Bond talks about the meaning of power with a number of villains in the series and his conversation with Dr. No shows that No believes that it can only be secured with privacy, quoting Clausewitz's first principle.

Gilliam says he used to think of his films in terms of trilogies, starting with Time Bandits in 1981.

Most trilogies are works of fiction involving the same characters or setting, such as The Deptford Trilogy of novels by Robertson Davies or The Godfather films of Francis Ford Coppola, " " The Shiva Trilogy " by Amish Tripathi.

The six Star Wars films are generally separated into two trilogies ; the " original trilogy " ( the three films released between 1977 and 1983 ) and the " prequel trilogy " ( the three films released between 1999 and 2005, which take place before the original three films ).

The Harkonnens are featured prominently in the original 1965 novel Dune, and are also a major presence in both the Prelude to Dune ( 1999-2001 ) and Legends of Dune ( 2002-2004 ) prequel trilogies by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

These three trilogies are about the US Marine Corps battling aliens over a period of a thousand years.

The trilogies are stated to appear from 2008 on until 2012.

Examples of this are Herald-Prince Darenthalis ( By the Sword ), King Tremane ( Storm Breaking ), and Firesong K ' Treva ( Mage Winds and Mage Storms trilogies ).

His two trilogies are both published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.

They are in his two trilogies:

) All books following this arc are trilogies.

Corum Jhaelen Irsei (" the Prince in the Scarlet Robe ") is the name of a fictional fantasy hero in a series of two trilogies written by author Michael Moorcock.

In the Dionysia festivals of ancient Greece, for example, trilogies of plays were performed followed by a fourth satyr play.

One of the most popular " trilogies " of fantasy books, The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, is not a trilogy, though it is often referred to as such.

These include the trilogies of Traci Harding, Mary Gilgannon's historical novels, and a fantasy novel by Nikolai Tolstoy.

How Few Remain is followed in the Southern Victory Series by the Great War and American Empire trilogies, and the Settling Accounts tetralogy.

Giedi Prime is also featured in the prequel trilogies Prelude to Dune ( 1999-2001 ) and Legends of Dune ( 2002-2004 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

Nine Star Trek novels, in the form of three thematic trilogies, have been written by William Shatner with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens.

Chronicles of the Raven is the first of two trilogies by James Barclay which revolves around a band of mercenaries named The Raven.

Legends of the Raven is the second of two trilogies by James Barclay which revolves around a band of mercenaries named The Raven.

The True Game is the collective name for a series of three related trilogies of short novels by Sheri S. Tepper.

Sunrunner is a fictional title created by author Melanie Rawn for her novels of the Dragon Prince and Dragon Star trilogies.