Hostility and War, Small or Otherwise

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¹ Compare: Carl von Clausewitz, Hinterlasseneswerk Vom Kriege, Ed. Werner Hahlweg, 19^th Ed., (Frankfurt: Ferdinand, 1980) [Hereafter, VK], Book I, Chap. 1, p. 213, emphasis original; Carl von Clausewitz, On War, trans. Michael Howard and Peter Paret (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1986), [Hereafter, OW], 89.

² For further elaboration on this point see Antulio J. Echevarria II, Clausewitz and Contemporary War (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007).

³ R.R. Palmer, ‘Frederick the Great, Guibert, Bülow: From Dynastic to National War,’ in Peter Paret, (ed.), Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Modern Age (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1986), 91-119.

⁴ Christopher Daase and James Davis, Clausewitz on Small War (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015), 215.

⁵ Daase and Davis, Clausewitz on Small War, 216.

⁶ Cited from Carl von Clausewitz, Politische Schriften und Briefe, (ed.), Hans Rothfels, (Munich: Drei Masken Verlag 1922), 118.

⁷ Vanya Eftimova Bellinger, Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman behind the Making of On War (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016), 96-100.

⁸ VK, Book I, Ch. 1, 191–92.

⁹ For further reading, see Immanuel Kant, On Perpetual Peace, trans. Ian Johnston, intro. Brian Orend (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press 2015).

¹⁰ VK, Book VIII, Ch. 3B, 970–74; OW, 592–93.

¹¹ For further reading on this point, see Anders Palmgren, ‘Visions of Strategy: Following Clausewitz’s Train of Thought,’ doctoral dissertation, Helsinki: National Defense University 2014.

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Antulio J. Echevarria

Antulio J. Echevarria is the editor of Parameters, the US Army War College Quarterly. Prior to that, he was the director of research for the US Army War College. Dr. Echevarria is the author of Reconsidering the American Way of War (Georgetown University Press, 2014); Clausewitz and Contemporary War (Oxford University Press, 2007); Imagining Future War (Praeger Securities International, 2007); and After Clausewitz (University Press of Kansas, 2001). He has also published extensively in scholarly and professional journals on topics related to military history and theory and strategic thinking. Dr. Echevarria is a graduate of the US Military Academy, the US Army Command and General Staff College, the US Army War College, and was a visiting research fellow at Oxford University. He holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Princeton University, and is currently working on a book on military strategy for Oxford University Press.