 | George Edward Thibault - Government publications - 1984 - 916 pages
...Merely the Continuation of Policy by Other Means It is clear, consequently, that war is not a mere e highways activity by other means. What remains peculiar to war is simply the peculiar nature of its means. War... | |
 | James Browne, William Paul Snyder - History - 1985 - 308 pages
...pp. 5-6. Compare with Clausewitz's formulation: "It is clear, consequently, that war is not a mere act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political activity by other means. What remains peculiar to war is simply the peculiar nature of its means."... | |
 | Barry Posen - History - 1984 - 292 pages
...Clausewitz made his now famous remarks on the relationship of war to policy. Most simply, "war is not a mere act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political activity by other means."36 Political considerations reach into the military means, to influence "the... | |
 | James W. Child - 1986 - 212 pages
...political object."3 And later in the same work: "It is clear, consequently, that war is not a mere act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political activity by other means."4 But as we reject moral nihilism with regard to war, so we reject this view.... | |
 | Aeronautics - 1983 - 752 pages
...Clausewit/ described war in its broad relationship to national purpose: "It is clear, that war is not a mere act of policy, but a true political instrument, a continuation of political activities by other means." War has as its objective the preservation or fulfillment of a nation's... | |
 | Howard Jones - History - 1988 - 230 pages
...Linebacker Bombing Campaigns MARK CLODFELTER "WAR," Karl von Clausewitz proclaimed, "is not a mere act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political activity by other means." Whereas the Prussian staff officer believed that a commander should require... | |
 | James J. Sheehan - History - 1989 - 996 pages
...sought to give this relationship the clearest and most general formulation possible: 'war is not a mere act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political activity by other means. . . . The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and... | |
 | Kalevi Jaakko Holsti - Political Science - 1991 - 404 pages
...known purposes. It is "an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfill our will . . . War is not merely an act of policy but a true political...political intercourse, carried on with other means" (Clausewitz, 1984:75, 87). Issues become immediately relevant in this view of war.1 "The political... | |
 | John Limon - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 266 pages
...definition of war as "nothing but the continuation of policy with other means," which he expands as follows: "war is not merely an act of policy but a true political...political intercourse, carried on with other means" ( W, 69, 87). This implies that of war and peace, peace is the inclusive category: unlike Hobbes (or... | |
 | David Jablonsky - Militarism - 1994 - 344 pages
...politics as ends in which war. governed by political calculation and reasoning. became not "a mere act of policy; but a true political instrument. a continuation of political activity by other means."17 Basic to this approach is the assumption that means are not arbitrary in... | |
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It is clear, consequently, that war is not a mere act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political activity by other means. 
