description: Carl Von Clausewitz defined strategy as the use of combat, or the threat of combat, for the purpose of the war in which it takes place. This formulation, which a modern historian has characterized as both revolutionary and defiantly simplistic, can be amended or expanded without difficulty.
language: English
title: Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
titlecomplete: Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
genres: Politics, Military History, History, Reference, Philosophy, Business, War, Nonfiction, Military Fiction, International Relations
ratings_count: 1761
publisher: Oxford University Press