[F]uture adversaries are more likely to pose irregular threats. -Irregular Warfare Joint Operating Concept 2.0, April 2010 It is now time to recognize that a paradigm shift in war has undoubtedly ...

Carl von Clausewitz offered his “paradoxical trinity” as a tool for thinking about wars and their various manifestations. His trinity was: Composed of primordial violence, hatred, and enmity, which ...

It’s very hard indeed to think of a single thinker or writer who looms as large over their chosen field of study as Carl von Clausewitz. Clausewitz, on the odd chance you haven’t heard of him in this ...

War, Clausewitz and the Trinity by Thomas Waldman. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited, Surrey, England, 2013. You must be logged in to rate. Click any rating to login.

“One of the glories of history is that it can never be definitive; good history is history on which others can build.” So wrote Peter Paret — the dean of American Clausewitz studies — in the preface ...