Strategy · Classics
Clausewitz
The Prussian theorist of war: 'war is the continuation of policy by other means', the trinity of passion, chance and reason, friction and the fog of uncertainty, center of gravity and the culminating point, and how business borrows them.
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Key idea
Prereqs: Sun Tzu; Boyd & the OODA loop. Next: Schelling: commitment & deterrence. Sources: Carl von Clausewitz, *On War* (1832; Howard & Paret translation); Donald Stoker, *Clausewitz: His Life and Work* (2014).Next: 1. Life