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Civilization might have been spared much of the damage suffered in the world wars this century if the influence of Clausewitz's On War had been blended with and balanced by a knowledge of Sun-tzu's The Art of Warfare. --B.H. Liddel Hart
For two thousand years, Sun-tzu's The Art of Warfare was the indispensable volume of warcraft. Although his work is the first known analysis of war and warfare, Sun-tzu struck upon a thoroughly modern concept: "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." Karl von Clausewitz, the canny military theorist who famously declared that war is a continuation of politics by other means, also claims paternity of the notion "total war." His is the magnum opus of the era of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic vars.
Now these two great military minds are made to share the same tent, metaphorically speaking, in The Book of War. What a bivouac it is, and what a conversation into the night.
Military writer Ralph Peters has written a new Introduction for this Modern Library edition.
- Sales Rank: #326031 in Books
- Brand: Von Clausewitz, Karl
- Published on: 2000-02-22
- Released on: 2000-02-22
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x 1.30" w x 5.20" l, 1.74 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 973 pages
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Civilization might have been spared much of the damage suffered in the world wars this century if the influence of Clausewitz's "On War had been blended with and balanced by a knowledge of Sun-tzu's "The Art of Warfare. --B.H. Liddel Hart
For two thousand years, Sun-tzu's The Art of Warfare was the indispensable volume of warcraft. Although his work is the first known analysis of war and warfare, Sun-tzu struck upon a thoroughly modern concept: "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." Karl von Clausewitz, the canny military theorist who famously declared that war is a continuation of politics by other means, also claims paternity of the notion "total war." His is the magnum opus of the era of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic vars.
Now these two great military minds are made to share the same tent, metaphorically speaking, in The Book of War. What a bivouac it is, and what a conversation into the night.
Military writer Ralph Peters has written a new Introduction for this Modern Library edition.
About the Author
Sun-tzu lived in China in the fourth century B.C., serving as a court minister during the "Warring States" period. He delivered his pronouncements about war over the course of his career, but his words were recorded by other hands. Karl Von Clausewitz (1780-1831) was a Prussian soldier who fought in the Moscow campaigns of 1812 and 1813. He spent over a dozen years writing On War, dying before his book saw publication in 1832.
Ralph Peters is a retired army officer and the author of a noted book on strategy, Fighting for the Future: Will American Triumph? He is also the author of the novels The Devil's Garden and Traitor.
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THE SEEKER AND THE SAGE
Ralph Peters
This book allies humankind's two most powerful works on warfare. Distant in time, space, and culture, Karl von Clausewitz and Sun-tzu offer dueling visions, with the Prussian appalled by fantasies of bloodless war and the Chinese crying that bloodless victory is the acme of generalship, and with Clausewitz anxious to increase military effectiveness, while Sun-tzu pleads, cleverly, for military restraint. Such discord assures their relevance to our time.
There is also plentiful agreement between Clausewitz's On War and Sun-tzu's The Art of Warfare, from their mutual vilification of heads of state who attempt to micro-manage distant battles to their similar emphasis on the key role of the commander. In the end-and I speak as a soldier, after decades of consideration--these two books complete each other, like a perfect couple formed of opposites. Between them, the two texts cover myriad aspects of the human experience of war-as well as reflecting the temperaments of their divergent civilizations. Clausewitz, the Western man, sought the grail of knowledge and found the pursuit endless, bottomless, and obsessive, while the Eastern sage who wrote down the sayings attributed to Sun-tzu polished what he knew until it shone. Each attained the universal, transcending personality and the particularity of experience. In the study of warfare, they have no peers, and these works remain the brightest lanterns we have to light our darkest endeavor.
The Western text embraces war's necessity, while the Eastern one despairs of its inevitability, but they are united by the recognition that the human remains at the heart of each combat encounter and every campaign. Each holds a flank in our approach to war: Clausewitz is the apostle of the relentless will, convinced there is no substitute for victory, while Sun-tzu seems a closet pacifist, wary of victory's hollowness. The first sought to sharpen the sword, the second to restrain it. The Prussian saw the power of the armed mass, while the Chinese pitied the suffering of the common man. Sun-tzu believed that the outcome of a campaign was predictable, but Clausewitz insisted that, although the odds can be improved, risk is inherent in warfare. This debate across millennia continues today, and placing these two works together highlights the strengths and weaknesses-and the inestimable value--of each book.
Each must be read. No cram notes will do, and summaries badly serve their genius. Clausewitz appears difficult, only to yield a hard, thrilling clarity; while Sun-tzu, a quick swallow, takes a lifetime to digest. One text is long, the other appealingly short. Both are inexhaustible.
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The starting places for understanding strategy and war
By Dianne Roberts
If you had to name the two most fundamental works on the nature of war Clausewitz and Sun Tzu would immediately come to mind. Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War would perhaps be the only other text nipping on the heels of the two included in here. Providing both in one book is a great idea. The superb editing of the texts and the inclusion of a cogent introduction by Ralph Peters makes this a truly valuable collection to anyone who wishes to understand war and the strategies that guide how it is fought.
Both Sun Tzu's and Clausewitz's texts are presented "unabridged" (in as much as Sun Tzu's work, actually a collection of writers over a good period of time, can be), and with some additional chapters that explains the context of the times in which both were written. This makes this book one of the "purest" examples a reader can obtain of both these influential texts. All of this copious thought from two very different civilizations and very disparate times is neatly prefaced by an insightful introduction by Ralph Peters entitled the "Seeker and the Sage" that is also recreated in his book "Beyond Terror." Whereas Sun Tzu is relatively simple to read (although its simplicity of writing belies its sophistication of thought and it cannot practically be processed as quickly as it can be read) Clausewitz is almost impossible to read, especially in its unabridged form, without some explanation first. Clausewitz's "On War" was never finished, indeed war can never be understood by the finite mental powers of any single individual. It is instead more along the lines of a long kept notebook of a "seeker" who never stopped trying to explore and understand his subject, with some preparation into eventual book form before his premature death. Clausewitz did not solely reside in the halls of theory and academia either, but was a field and staff officer deeply steeped in Prussian military tradition who fought Napoleon personally, both for the Prussians and the Russians, and who also suffered a two year incarceration by French forces. With the bitter taste of experience his work is directed towards soldiers who had seen war, the only people he felt stood any chance of even beginning to grasp its nature. His writing is in the thick, difficult to navigate manner of his time (definitely not fun reading) but it is also surprisingly passionate and vividly poetic. Although a heavy slog to read he is not leaden.
While Sun Tzu is the easier read, Clausewitz's thought will be the most readily accessible to a westerner. It is written in a very explanatory and exploratory manner, of someone trying to progress linearly through the nature of war. His "conclusions" (if an unfinished work can have any) are unrelenting: War is the imposition of your will upon another by means of force; war boils ineluctably down to the destruction of the enemy's forces, his means to resist; there is a trinity between the government, people, and military forces of a nation-state, and if you break that trinity you will break your opponent's ability to fight; War is the realm of friction, fog, and chance, there is no riskier endeavor in human history and none more subject to the unplanned for and unforeseeable intervention of fate. Clausewitz examines his subject in excruciating breadth and detail, which has falsely lead some to cast his entire work as outdated when only large, but by far not the most significant, portions of it are anachronistic to the form on Napoleonic warfare in 19th century continental Europe, such as sections on the use of Cavalry and on forest or mountain fighting. It would be a grave mistake to ignore his wider lessons on war, or to ignore his especially brilliant sections on the nature of leadership in warfare and the interaction between his trinity of government, people, and military forces.
Whereas Clausewitz has a heavy emphasis on the use of Strategy to plan engagements to destroy your enemy's forces, Sun Tzu has an alternative focus which at first blush seems rather contradictory, the use of strategy to destroy your enemy's plan, preferably without fighting. But this comes down to the same breaking of your enemy's trinity that Clausewitz touches upon. Nor is it pacific as some have claimed, but, as Ralph Peters points out, an Eastern inversion of "war is politics by other means" to "politics is war by other means." Sun Tzu, Peter's Sage to Clausewitz Seeker, is in reality a collection of wisdom from multiple sources over a long period of time. These gems of thought are not explained like Clausewitz but simply stated, giving them the element of easy acceptance but difficult comprehension. Given their compendium nature they also frequently contradict on a superficial level, because the context of how each was derived and when each is best applied is left out. But Sun Tzu is a work of brilliance equal to, and possibly superior, to Clausewitz. Possibly superior if for no other reason than it, through the influence of such recent military strategist as Col. John Boyd, has likely had more influence on the recent design and execution of US military operations than Clausewitz.
The major differences between the content of Clausewitz and Sun Tzu in the end are not disagreements on the nature of war. Whereas Sun Tzu attempts to emphasize the ability to break your enemy's trinity with avoiding an engagement of forces (a realization of Clausewitz's friction and chance inherent in conflict and that the commitment of forces inevitably reduces power and strategic flexibility) Clausewitz despairs of these possibilities and thus gives them short shrift. For in the paradoxical logical of Strategy, if your side feels it can best impose its will by avoiding armed conflict your opponent should realize this and decide his best chance of imposing his will is by forcing it.
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This is a really nice pairing of two superior texts--i
By Chris Bassford
This is a really nice pairing of two superior texts--i.e., the most scrupulous and accurate translation of Carl von Clausewitz's famous, crucially important theoretical work ON WAR and the most modern and complete text of Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR. Both are introduced by the always entertaining and well informed modern soldier-scholar Ralph Peters. Roger Ames' edition of Sun Tzu is based on superb scholarship, including study of the ancient Sun Tzu texts--containing previously missing material--unearthed by archaeologists in China. The translation of Clausewitz is the one done by German literary scholar Otto Jolles at the University of Chicago in 1943. The un-military Jolles' primary motivation in doing this translation was to avoid being drafted by the US Army for World War II, so he had no military-theoretical biases or personal axes to grind. He was, however, highly literate in the German of Clausewitz's era (he was a specialist on Schiller) and his British father-in-law (also an academic) worked to polish Jolles' English. Indeed, the only accurate criticism made of this translation concerns the erroneous spelling of Clausewitz's first name with a 'K'--a decision almost certainly made not by Jolles but by the publishers to emphasize Clausewitz's German-ness. One can, however, criticize the writer of the book's back cover: Clausewitz did not use the term "total war," was not the author of that concept as it was applied in the 20th century, and would have sneered at the total-war theorists' inversion of the relationship between policy and strategy. General Erich Ludendorff, one of the principal authors of total-war thinking, clearly articulated the nature of the contradiction between Clausewitz's ideas and his own. Jolles' translation is consistently more precise than the more commonly used Howard/Paret translation (Princeton, 1976), though both versions are uneven. While the latter is often praised, I suspect that most of those who claim it to be "more readable" are comparing it to the ancient (1873) Graham translation, not to the superior but hard-to-find Jolles version. In any case, readability at the expense of accuracy is a poor trade.
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