Editing Conventional warfare (section)

===Clausewitzian paradigm===
[[Prussia]] was one of the countries that tried to amass military power. [[Carl von Clausewitz]], one of Prussia's officers, wrote ''[[On War]]'', a work rooted solely in the world of the state. All other forms of intrastate conflict, such as [[rebellion]], are not accounted for because in theoretical terms, he could not account for warfare before the state. However, near the end of his life, he grew increasingly aware of the importance of non-state military actors, as is revealed in his conceptions of "the people in arms", which he noted arose from the same social and political sources as traditional interstate warfare.<ref name="Smith">Smith, M.L.R. "Guerrillas in the mist: reassessing strategy and low intensity warfare". ''Review of International Studies''. Vol. 29, 19–37. 2003</ref>

Practices such as [[raid (military)|raiding]] or [[feud|blood feuds]] were then labeled criminal activities and stripped of [[legitimacy (political)|legitimacy]]. That war paradigm reflected the view of most of the modernized world in the early 21st century, as is verified by examination of the conventional armies of the time: large, high-maintenance, and technologically advanced armies designed to compete against similarly designed forces.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Marsili |first=Marco |year=2023 |title=Shifting the Clausewitzian Paradigm from Battlefield to Political Arena |url=https://cesran.org/shifting-the-clausewitzian-paradigm-from-battlefield-to-political-arena.html |journal=CESRAN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Herberg-Rothe |first=Andreas |date=2023-04-27 |title=Clausewitz and Sun Tzu - Paradigms of Warfare in the 21st Century |url=https://www.thepeninsula.org.in/2023/04/27/clausewitz-and-sun-tzu-paradigms-of-warfare-in-the-21st-century/ |journal=The Peninsula}}</ref>

Clausewitz also forwarded the issue of ''[[casus belli]]''. Wars had been fought for social, religious, or even cultural reasons, and Clausewitz taught that war is merely "a continuation of politics by other means." It is a rational calculation in which states fight for their interests (whether they are economic, security-related, or otherwise) once normal discourse has broken down.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Banta |first=Benjamin |date=2019-08-05 |title=The New War Thesis and Clausewitz: A Reconciliation |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1758-5899.12722 |journal=Global Policy |volume=10 |issue=4 |pages=477–485 |doi=10.1111/1758-5899.12722}}</ref>