In the marginalia of his copy of On War, influential fighter pilot-theorist John Boyd laments that Carl von Clausewitz never thought about inducing friction for the adversary: “Overcome friction, ...

In his classic text “On War,” the great philosopher of war Carl von Clausewitz introduced the concept of the “center of gravity.” The center of gravity in war is “the hub of all power and movement, on ...

With regards to Afghanistan, President Trump’s State of the Union address offered a subtle but stinging rebuke to former President Obama and his foreign policy genius, Ben Rhodes. It came via the ...

But can reading an analysis of a limited conflict fought by men in laced coats and powdered wigs really inform our view of war in the twenty-first century? It can, and it should. Why? In any future ...

In his magnum opus “On War,” the 19th century Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausewitz wrote that the population of a country must be courageous to achieve greatness. Without the ...

Clausewitz: Philosopher of War by Raymond Aron, translated by Christine Booker and Norman Stone. Published by Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, United Kingdom, 1983. The study of war is a life-long ...

Inside View: Ignore the haters pushing a revisionist history, and recognize the American experiment for the success that it is. In his magnum opus “On War,” the 19th century Prussian general and ...

President Donald Trump's new tariff campaign, imposing heavy taxes on imports from both friendly and unfriendly U.S. trading partners, might have prompted the famous Prussian general and military ...