Editing Military strategy (section)

===Clausewitz and Jomini===
[[File:Clausewitz.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Carl von Clausewitz]]]]
[[Carl von Clausewitz | Clausewitz]]'s ''[[On War]]'' has become a famous reference<ref>{{cite journal | url =https://www.jstor.org/stable/26746704 | jstor =26746704 | title =Clausewitz, War, and Strategy in the Twenty-first Century | last1 =Hughes | first1 =R. Gerald | journal =War in History | date =2019 | volume =26 | issue =2 | pages =287–296 | doi =10.1177/0968344518804624 | hdl =2160/dfc61137-9005-4346-9a91-353be2927e0f | hdl-access =free  | quote = [...] ''Vom Kriege'' remains the most important book on war ever written.}}
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{{cite book
 |last1                = Brooks
 |first1               = M. Evan
 |date                 = 30 May 2002
 |chapter              = Military Theorists
 |title                = Military History's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Improbable Victories, Unlikely Heroes, and Other Martial Oddities
 |url                  = https://books.google.com/books?id=aTmI3RmgBwAC
 |publication-place    = Washington, D.C.
 |publisher            = Potomac Books, Inc.
 |page                 = 164
 |isbn                 = 9781597974608
 |access-date          = 7 April 2024
 |quote                = [...Clausewitz] wrote ''On War'' (1819), an attempt to synthesize strategy and the conduct of war within the state [...] it has become the standard reference for military theory.
}} 
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for strategy, dealing with political, as well as military, [[leadership]],<ref>{{cite journal | url =https://www.jstor.org/stable/26746704 | jstor =26746704 | title =Clausewitz, War, and Strategy in the Twenty-first Century | last1 =Hughes | first1 =R. Gerald | journal =War in History | date =2019 | volume =26 | issue =2 | pages =287–296 | doi =10.1177/0968344518804624 | hdl =2160/dfc61137-9005-4346-9a91-353be2927e0f | hdl-access =free }}</ref> his most famous assertion being:

:"War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of policy by other means."

Clausewitz saw war first and foremost as a political act, and thus maintained that the purpose of all strategy was to achieve the political goal that the state was seeking to accomplish. As such, Clausewitz famously argued that war was the "continuation of politics by other means".<ref>
{{langx|de| Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln.}} - ''Vom Kriege'', 1. Buch, 1. Kapitel, Unterkapitel 24 (Überschrift). The German word {{lang | de | Politik}} can express either "politics" or "policy" - see [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Politik Wiktionary].
</ref> Clausewitz and Jomini are widely read by US military personnel.<ref>See U.S. [[United States Army War College|Army War College]] http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081214054203/http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ |date=December 14, 2008 }} and [[Royal Military Academy Sandhurst]], U.K. {{failed verification|date=April 2024}}</ref>