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==Further reading== {{Refbegin|30em}} * See massive Clausewitz bibliographies in English, French, German, etc., on [http://www.clausewitz.com/mobile/bibl.htm ''The Clausewitz Homepage'' bibliography section]. * [[Raymond Aron|Aron, Raymond]]. ''Clausewitz: Philosopher of War.'' (1985). 418 pp. {{ISBN|0671628267}} {{OCLC|13702496}} * [[Christopher Bassford|Bassford, Christopher]]. ''[http://www.clausewitz.com/readings/Bassford/CIE/TOC.htm Clausewitz in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America, 1815–1945].'' New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. {{ISBN|0195083830}} {{OCLC|27811623}} * Christopher Bassford, "[http://www.clausewitz.com/mobile/trinity8.htm Tiptoe Through the Trinity: The Strange Persistence of Trinitarian Warfare]." Working paper. * Christopher Bassford, "[http://www.clausewitz.com/mobile/Bassford-Supersession5.pdf Clausewitz's Categories of War and the Supersession of 'Absolute War'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180417141040/http://www.clausewitz.com/mobile/Bassford-Supersession5.pdf |date=2018-04-17 }}" (Clausewitz.com). This is a 'working paper' first posted in 2016." * {{cite EB1911|wstitle= Clausewitz, Karl von | volume= 06 | page = 467 }} * [http://www.mqup.ca/war-as-paradox-products-9780773547698.php Cormier, Youri]. "Fighting Doctrines and Revolutionary Ethics" Journal of Military and Security Studies, Vol 15, No 1 (2013) https://web.archive.org/web/20140729225332/http://jmss.synergiesprairies.ca/jmss/index.php/jmss/article/view/519 * {{cite journal|doi=10.1080/07075332.2013.859166|title=Hegel and Clausewitz: Convergence on Method, Divergence on Ethics|year=2014|last1=Cormier|first1=Youri|journal=The International History Review|volume=36|issue=3|pages=419–442|s2cid=143665195}} * [http://www.mqup.ca/war-as-paradox-products-9780773547698.php Cormier, Youri]. War As Paradox: Clausewitz & Hegel on Fighting Doctrines and Ethics, (Montreal & Kingston: McGill Queen's University Press, 2016) pp. 183–232 * {{cite journal|doi=10.1080/01402390.2018.1529567|title=Clausewitz and the politics of war: A contemporary theory|year=2018|last1=Dimitriu|first1=George|journal=Journal of Strategic Studies|volume=43|issue=5|pages=1–41|doi-access=free}} * Donker, Paul. "[https://www.clausewitzstudies.org/bibl/DonkerP-TheEvolutionOfClausewitzsVomKriege.pdf The Evolution of Clausewitz's ''Vom Kriege'': a reconstruction on the basis of the earlier versions of his masterpiece]." Trans. Paul Donker and Christopher Bassford, ClausewitzStudies.org, August 2019. Originally "Die Entwicklung von Clausewitz' Vom Kriege: Eine Rekonstruktion auf der Grundlage der früheren Fassungen seines Meisterwerks," in the Clausewitz-Gesellschaft's Jahrbuch2017, pp. 14–39. * Echevarria, Antulio J., II. ''After Clausewitz: German Military Thinkers before the Great War.'' (2001). 346 pp. {{ISBN|0700610715}} {{OCLC|44516530}} * {{cite book|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199231911.001.0001|title=Clausewitz and Contemporary War|year=2007|last1=Echevarria II|first1=Antulio J.|isbn=978-0199231911}} * Gat, Azar. ''The Origins of Military Thought from the Enlightenment to Clausewitz'' (1989) {{ISBN|0198229488}} {{OCLC|18779344}} * Gat, Azar. ''A history of military thought: from the Enlightenment to the Cold War'' (2001) {{ISBN|9780199247622}} {{OCLC|47726917}} * Gat, Azar. ''The Clausewitz Myth: Or the Emperor's New Clothes'' (2024) {{ISBN|9781803416212}} {{OCLC|1414370867}} * Handel, Michael I., ed. ''Clausewitz and Modern Strategy.'' 1986. 324 pp. {{ISBN|0714632945}} {{OCLC| 13214672}} * Handel, Michael I. ''Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought.'' (2001) 482 pages. Based on comparison of Clausewitz's ''On War'' with Sun Tzu's ''The Art of War'' {{ISBN|0714681326}} {{OCLC| 318033033}} * Heuser, Beatrice. ''Reading Clausewitz.'' (2002). 238 pages, {{ISBN|0-7126-6484-X}} * {{cite journal|doi=10.1080/01402391003603623|title=Small Wars in the Age of Clausewitz: The Watershed Between Partisan War and People's War|year=2010|last1=Heuser|first1=Beatrice|journal=Journal of Strategic Studies|volume=33|pages=139–162|s2cid=154880399}} * {{cite journal|doi=10.1080/01402390701210855|title=Planning versus Chaos in Clausewitz's ''On'' War|year=2007|last1=Holmes|first1=Terence M.|journal=Journal of Strategic Studies|volume=30|pages=129–151|s2cid=44042550|citeseerx=10.1.1.472.9658}} * [[Sir Michael Howard]], ''Clausewitz'', 1983 [originally a volume in the Oxford University Press "Past Masters" series, reissued in 2000 as ''Clausewitz: A Very Short Introduction'']. {{ISBN|0-192-87608-2}} {{OCLC|8709266}} * {{cite journal|doi=10.1177/096834459400100305|title=John Keegan and the Grand Tradition of Trashing Clausewitz: A Polemic|year=1994|last1=Bassford|first1=Christopher|journal=War in History|volume=1|issue=3|pages=319–336|s2cid=162660742}} ** See critique of Keegan's arguments by Christopher Bassford, "[http://www.clausewitz.com/mobile/keegandelenda.htm John Keegan and the Grand Tradition of Trashing Clausewitz: A Polemic]," ''War in History'', November 1994, pp. 319–336. * {{cite book|doi=10.4324/9780203089125|title=Clausewitz and America|year=2009|last1=Kinross|first1=Stuart|isbn=978-0203089125}} * {{cite journal|doi=10.2979/GSO.2009.3.1.18|title=How to do Things with Clausewitz|year=2009|last1=Mieszkowski|first1=Jan|journal=The Global South|volume=3|pages=18–29|s2cid=143627760}} * Mertsalov, A.N. "Jomini versus Clausewitz" pp. 11–19 from ''Russia War, Peace and Diplomacy'' edited by Mark and Ljubica Erickson, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004, {{ISBN|0-297-84913-1}}. * Paret, Peter. [http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=ParetClausewitz''Clausewitz in His Time: Essays in the Cultural and Intellectual History of Thinking about War'']. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015. * {{cite journal|doi=10.1353/hsp.0.0118|title=Two Historians on Defeat in War and Its Causes|year=2010|last1=Peter Paret|journal=Historically Speaking|volume=11|issue=3|pages=2–8|s2cid=162357305}} * Paret, Peter. ''Clausewitz and the State: The Man, His Theories, and His Times''. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. * {{cite journal|doi=10.1353/jhi.2004.0021|title=From Ideal to Ambiguity: Johannes von Muller, Clausewitz, and the People in Arms|year=2004|last1=Paret|first1=Peter|journal=Journal of the History of Ideas|volume=65|pages=101–111|s2cid=143173095}} * {{cite journal|doi=10.2307/3093268|jstor=3093268|title=Clausewitz, Genius, and the Rules|year=2002|last1=Rogers|first1=Clifford J.|journal=The Journal of Military History|volume=66|issue=4|pages=1167–1176}} * Paul Roques, Le général de Clausewitz. Sa vie et sa théorie de la guerre, Paris, Editions Astrée, 2013. {{ISBN|979-10-91815-01-7}} http://www.editions-astree.fr/BC/Bon_de_commande_Roques.pdf * [[Hans Rothfels|Rothfels, Hans]] "Clausewitz" pp. 93–113 from ''The Makers of Modern Strategy'' edited by Edward Mead Earle, [[Gordon A. Craig]] & [[Felix Gilbert]], Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1943. * {{cite journal|doi=10.1080/09557571.2013.872600|title=A social theory of war: Clausewitz and war reconsidered|year=2015|last1=Sharma|first1=Vivek Swaroop|journal=Cambridge Review of International Affairs|volume=28|issue=3|pages=327–347|s2cid=144039698|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271941186}} * Smith, Hugh. ''On Clausewitz: A Study of Military and Political Ideas.'' (2005). 303 pp. * Stoker, Donald J. ''Clausewitz: His Life and Work'' (Oxford UP, 2014) 376 pp. [https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=42780 online review]; also [https://www.amazon.com/Clausewitz-Life-Work-Donald-Stoker/dp/0199357943/ excerpt] * {{cite book|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199232024.001.0001|title=Clausewitz in the Twenty-First Century|year=2007|isbn=978-0199232024|editor1-last=Strachan|editor1-first=Hew|editor2-last=Herberg-Rothe|editor2-first=Andreas}} * Strachan, Hew, and Andreas Herberg-Rothe, eds. ''Clausewitz in the Twenty-First Century'' (2007) [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199232024/ excerpt and text search] * {{cite journal|doi=10.2307/2677163|jstor=2677163|title=The Relationship of History and Theory in on War: The Clausewitzian Ideal and Its Implications|year=2001|last1=Sumida|first1=Jon Tetsuro|journal=The Journal of Military History|volume=65|issue=2|pages=333–354}} * Sumida, Jon Tetsuro. ''Decoding Clausewitz: A New Approach to On War'' Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0700616169}} {{OCLC| 213765799}} * Villacres, Edward J. and Bassford, Christopher. [http://www.clausewitz.com/readings/Bassford/Trinity/TRININTR.htm "Reclaiming the Clausewitzian Trinity"]. Parameters, Autumn 95, pp. 9–19, * [[Jehuda L. Wallach|Wallach, Jehuda L.]] ''The Dogma of the Battle of Annihilation: The Theories of Clausewitz and Schlieffen and Their Impact on the German Conduct of Two World Wars.'' (1986). * {{cite journal |last=Waldman |first=Thomas |year=2012 |title=Clausewitz and the Study of War |journal=Defence Studies |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=345–374 |issn=1470-2436|doi=10.1080/14702436.2012.703843 |s2cid=153486360 }} {{Refend}} ===Primary sources (including translations)=== {{Refbegin}} * Clausewitz, Carl von. ''Historical and Political Writings,'' ed. Peter Paret and Daniel Moran (1992). * Clausewitz, Carl von. ''[http://www.clausewitz.com/readings/VomKriege1832/TOC.htm Vom Kriege]''. Berlin: Dümmlers Verlag, 1832. * {{cite book |last=Clausewitz |first=Carl von |editor1-last=Howard |editor1-first=Michael |editor1-link=Michael Howard (historian)|editor2-last=Paret |editor2-first=Peter |editor2-link=Peter Paret|title=On War |location=Princeton |publisher=Princeton University Press |edition=trans. |orig-year=1976 |year=1984 |isbn=978-0-691-05657-9}} * Clausewitz, Carl von. ''On War'', abridged version translated by [[Michael Howard (historian)|Michael Howard]] and [[Peter Paret]], edited with an introduction by Beatrice Heuser Oxford World's Classics (Oxford University Press, 2007) {{ISBN|978-0-19-954002-0}} * Clausewitz, Carl von. ''[http://www.clausewitz.com/mobile/principlesofwar.htm Principles of War]''. Translated by Hans Gatske. The Military Service Publishing Company, 1942. Originally "Die wichtigsten Grundsätze des Kriegführens zur Ergänzung meines Unterrichts bei Sr. Königlichen Hoheit dem Kronprinzen" (written 1812). * Clausewitz, Carl von. Col. J. J. Graham, translator. ''Vom Kriege''. ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1946 On War – Volume 1]'', [[Project Gutenberg]] eBook. The ''full'' text of the 1873 English translation can be seen in parallel with the original German text at [http://www.clausewitz.com/CompareFrameSource1.htm Compare VOM KRIEGE (1832) and ON WAR (1873 translation)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111002001/http://clausewitz.com/CompareFrameSource1.htm |date=2018-11-11 }}. [http://www.clausewitz.com/CompareFrameSource1.htm Compare VOM KRIEGE (1832) and ON WAR (1873 translation)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111002001/http://clausewitz.com/CompareFrameSource1.htm |date=2018-11-11 }} * Clausewitz, Karl von. ''On War.'' Trans. O.J. Matthijs Jolles. New York: Random House, 1943. Though not currently the standard translation, this is increasingly viewed by many Clausewitz scholars as the most precise and accurate English translation. * Clausewitz, Carl von (2018). ''Napoleon's 1796 Italian Campaign.'' Trans and ed. Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. {{ISBN|978-0-7006-2676-2}} * Clausewitz, Carl von (2020). ''Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 1.'' Trans and ed. Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. {{ISBN|978-0-7006-3025-7}} [http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=57772 online review] * Clausewitz, Carl von (2021). ''The Coalition Crumbles, Napoleon Returns: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 2.'' Trans and ed. Nicholas Murray and Christopher Pringle. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. {{ISBN|978-0-7006-3034-9}} * Clausewitz, Carl von. ''[http://www.clausewitz.com/readings/1812/Clausewitz-CampaignOf1812inRussia-EllesmereTranslation.pdf ''The Campaign of 1812 in Russia''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200113114054/http://clausewitz.com/readings/1812/Clausewitz-CampaignOf1812inRussia-EllesmereTranslation.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608020736/http://www.clausewitz.com/readings/1812/Clausewitz-CampaignOf1812inRussia-EllesmereTranslation.pdf |archive-date=2011-06-08 |url-status=live |date=2020-01-13 }}''. Trans. anonymous [Wellington's friend Francis Egerton, later Lord Ellesmere], London: John Murray Publishers, 1843. Originally Carl von Clausewitz, ''Hinterlassene Werke des Generals Carl von Clausewitz über Krieg und Krieg führung'', 10 vols., Berlin, 1832–37, "''Der Feldzug von 1812 in Russland''" in Vol. 7, Berlin, 1835. * Clausewitz, Carl von, and Wellesley, Arthur (First Duke of Wellington), ed./trans. Christopher Bassford, Gregory W. Pedlow, and Daniel Moran, [http://www.clausewitz.com/readings/1815/ ''On Waterloo: Clausewitz, Wellington, and the Campaign of 1815'']. (Clausewitz.com, 2010). This collection of documents includes, in a modern English translation, the whole of Clausewitz's study, ''[http://www.clausewitz.com/readings/1815/five1-9.htm The Campaign of 1815: Strategic Overview]'' (Berlin: 1835). {{ISBN|1-4537-0150-8}}. It also includes [http://www.clausewitz.com/readings/1815/six.htm Wellington's reply] to Clausewitz's discussion of the campaign, as well as [http://www.clausewitz.com/readings/1815/three.htm two letters by Clausewitz] to his wife after the major battles of 1815 and other supporting documents and essays. * Clausewitz, Carl von. ''[http://www.clausewitz.com/readings/TwoLetters/TwoLetters.htm Two Letters on Strategy]''. Ed./trans. Peter Paret and Daniel Moran. Carlisle: Army War College Foundation, 1984. {{Refend}}
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