Karl Von Clausewitz (1780-1831)
Creative Conflict Wisdom is not a blog about war, but we cannot write about conflict without considering the author of the classic: ‘On War’, because as he most famously said:
‘War is the conduct of policy by other means’.
This could be paraphrased to mean war as the conduct of conflict by more than political means. Many think that his book is the greatest ever written about war. As has been well said in Michael Howard’s excellent ‘Very Short Introduction to Clausewitz‘, few can help us think about war so well, and few have penetrated the ephemeral phenomena of their own times so incisively and considered war as a ‘…great socio-political activity distinguished from all other activities by the reciprocal and legitimized use of powerful violence to attain political objectives.’
So what were his top ten insights? (This is the first of…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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