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18th Century History
On War
by General Carl von Clausewitz
Volume I
TRANSLATED BY COLONEL J.J. GRAHAM
{1874 was 1st edition of this translation. 1909 was the London reprinting.}
Chapter 2 END AND MEANS IN WAR
HAVING in the foregoing chapter ascertained the complicated
and variable nature of War, we shall now occupy ourselves in
examining into the influence which this nature has upon the end
and means in War.
If we ask, first of all, for the object upon which the whole effort
of War is to be directed, in order that it may suffice for the
attainment of the political object, we shall find that it is just as
variable as are the political object and the particular
circumstances of the War.
If, in the next place, we keep once more to the pure conception
of War, then we must say that the political object properly lies
out of its province, for if War is an act of violence to compel the
enemy to fulfil our will, then in every case all depends on our
overthrowing the enemy, that is, disarming him, and on that a......
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