Clausewitz and the post-nuclear Nuclear Strategy

Notes on the character of Nuclear War

Carl Clausewitz. Background - Launch of a Minuteman III ICBM.

It is a commonplace in strategic studies to say that Clausewitz's teachings on war and strategy cannot be applied to nuclear strategy. It may seem that this separation is indisputable and somewhat truism, after all Clausewitz was not concerned with matters of deterrence, or how to prevent a war from breaking out, but rather he wrote about how wars were won, about the nature of war and its relationship with politics.

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