Chairman's Corner
Why Clausewitz Matters in 2013
I can think of at least one good reason why we should still care about Carl von Clausewitz – the Prussian who watched Napoleon overrun his country and started philosophizing about it. Clausewitz made the well known argument that war is the continuation of politics by other means, by which he meant the responsibility of political leaders to take control of war. As we look back at two decades of war – though war today is mostly called intervention – we see that the political leaders who have asked their countries to go to war actually have been poor at taking control.
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Sten Rynning
Professor & Head of Centre