On War
Anatol Rapoport's introduction to his edition of the J. J. Graham translation of Clausewitz's "On War" identifies three main teleological traditions in the philosophy of war: the cataclysmic, the eschatological, and the political. ("On War", Rapoport's introduction, 13). These are not the only possible teleological philosophies of war, but only three of the most common. As Rapoport says,