Jon Tetsuro Sumida . Decoding Clausewitz: A New Approach toOn War. (Modern War Studies.)Lawrence : University Press of Kansas . 2008 . Pp. xix, 234. $29.95.
2010; Oxford University Press; Volume: 115; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1086/ahr.115.1.309
ISSN1937-5239
Autores Tópico(s)European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies
ResumoThis book is a well-known naval historian's treatise on Vom Kriege (1832), the widely known masterwork of Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz. Although analysts, hostile and sympathetic alike, have lamented Vom Kriege's falling short of the philosophical gravitas that Clausewitz strove to present, Jon Tetsuro Sumida seeks to counter such views by identifying subtexts of profundity and coherence while taking issue with various critics of Clausewitz, most notably B. H. Liddell Hart. While arraying a panoply of relevant excerpts from Vom Kriege, the author bolsters his views with selections from Antoine-Henri Jomini, Julian Corbett, Raymond Aron, Peter Paret, and W. B. Gallie. Deeming the aggregate of their efforts “the great bulk of what is known, or what is thought to be known about Clausewitz and his work,” Sumida defines as his primary goal the preventing of readers coming to Clausewitz's “work with preconceptions that can be an obstacle to comprehension of his actual text” (p. 6).
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