Clausewitz's profound, unfinished study of the nature of war, famous for the idea that war is 'the continuation of policy by other means.' It is the most influential work of Western military theory.
Sources for Carl von Clausewitz — On War
Carl von Clausewitz — On War in War & Military Thought
Held in the War & Military Thought chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Tjaneni — An Account of the Battle of Megiddo (−1457)
- Sun Tzu — The Art of War (−500)
- Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War (−400)
- Xenophon — Anabasis (The March of the Ten Thousand) (−370)
- Julius Caesar — The Gallic Wars (−50)
- Arrian — The Anabasis of Alexander (150)
- Antoine-Henri Jomini — The Art of War (1838)