The Reality of War: A Companion to Clausewitz
Stewart Lygon Murray · English
The Reality of War by Major Stewart L. Murray, late of the Gordon Highlanders, is a short guide to the ideas of Carl von Clausewitz for British…
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The Reality of War by Major Stewart L. Murray, late of the Gordon Highlanders, is a short guide to the ideas of Carl von Clausewitz for British readers without time for On War itself. It appears here in the popular edition edited by A. Hilliard Atteridge and reprinted in 1914. Murray sketches Clausewitz's life, influence and writings, then explains his teaching on the nature of war, war as policy, strategy, tactics, public opinion and the scale of effort a modern national war demands, quoting Clausewitz at length. He closes by considering what has changed since Clausewitz's day.
The Reality of War: A Companion to Clausewitz
Stewart Lygon Murray · English
The Reality of War by Major Stewart L. Murray, late of the Gordon Highlanders, is a short guide to the ideas of Carl von Clausewitz for British…
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Great books, the masterpieces of the special branch of knowledge with which they deal, are often very big books; and busy men, who have not unlimited time for reading, find it helpful to have some one who will give them a general summary of a famous writer's teaching, and point out the most important passages in which the author himself embodies the very essence of his argument.
Pagera Editor's Note
The Reality of War by Major Stewart L. Murray, late of the Gordon Highlanders, is a short guide to the ideas of Carl von Clausewitz for British readers without time for On War itself. It appears here in the popular edition edited by A. Hilliard Atteridge and reprinted in 1914. Murray sketches Clausewitz's life, influence and writings, then explains his teaching on the nature of war, war as policy, strategy, tactics, public opinion and the scale of effort a modern national war demands, quoting Clausewitz at length. He closes by considering what has changed since Clausewitz's day.
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