Carl von Clausewitz

✶June 1, 1780

†November 16, 1831

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Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz was a Prussian army officer and military theorist who stressed the "moral" and political aspects of waging war. His most notable work, Vom Kriege, though unfinished at his death, is considered a seminal treatise on military strategy and science.

German-Prussian general and military theorist (1780–1831)

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