On War, vol. 3
Vol. 3 of Clausewitz’s magnum opus in which he ponders the revolution in military affairs made possible by the “nation at arms” during the French Revolution. He did not live to see the book appear in print but its influence was profound in Prussia and then in the unified German nation state during the course of the 19th century. This edition is noteworthy for appearing during the First World War in England.
On War, trans. Col. J.J. Graham. New and Revised edition with Introduction and Notes by Col. F.N. Maude, in Three Volumes (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & C., 1918). Vol. 3.
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- Author: Carl von Clausewitz
- Translator: Colonel James John Graham
- Introduction: Colonel Frederic Natusch Maude
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS
- BOOK VII: THE ATTACK
- CHAPTER I: THE ATTACK IN RELATION TO THE DEFENCE
- CHAPTER II: NATURE OF THE STRATEGICAL ATTACK
- CHAPTER III: OF THE OBJECTS OF STRATEGICAL ATTACK
- CHAPTER IV: DECREASING FORCE OF THE ATTACK
- CHAPTER V: CULMINATING POINT OF THE ATTACK
- CHAPTER VI: DESTRUCTION OF THE ENEMY’S ARMIES
- CHAPTER VII: THE OFFENSIVE BATTLE
- CHAPTER VIII: PASSAGE OF RIVERS
- CHAPTER IX: ATTACK OF DEFENSIVE POSITIONS
- CHAPTER X: ATTACK OF AN ENTRENCHED CAMP
- CHAPTER XI: ATTACK OF A MOUNTAIN RANGE
- CHAPTER XII: ATTACK OF CORDON LINES
- CHAPTER XIII: MANŒUVRING
- CHAPTER XIV: ATTACK OF MORASSES, INUNDATIONS, WOODS
- CHAPTER XV: ATTACK OF A THEATRE OF WAR WITH THE VIEW TO A DECISION
- CHAPTER XVI: ATTACK OF A THEATRE OF WAR WITHOUT THE VIEW TO A GREAT DECISION
- CHAPTER XVII: ATTACK OF FORTRESSES
- CHAPTER XVIII: ATTACK OF CONVOYS
- CHAPTER XIX: ATTACK ON THE ENEMY’S ARMY IN ITS CANTONMENTS
- CHAPTER XX: DIVERSION
- Execution
- CHAPTER XXI: INVASION
- ON THE CULMINATING POINT OF VICTORY*
- BOOK VIII: PLAN OF WAR
- CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER II: ABSOLUTE AND REAL WAR
- CHAPTER III
- A—: INTERDEPENDENCE OF THE PARTS IN WAR
- B—: OF THE MAGNITUDE OF THE OBJECT OF THE WAR AND THE EFFORTS TO BE MADE
- CHAPTER IV: ENDS IN WAR MORE PRECISELY DEFINED
- OVERTHROW OF THE ENEMY
- CHAPTER V: ENDS IN WAR MORE PRECISELY DEFINED (continued)
- LIMITED OBJECT
- CHAPTER VI
- A.—: INFLUENCE OF THE POLITICAL OBJECT ON THE MILITARY OBJECT
- B.—: WAR AS AN INSTRUMENT OF POLICY
- CHAPTER VII: LIMITED OBJECT—OFFENSIVE WAR
- CHAPTER VIII: LIMITED OBJECT—DEFENCE
- CHAPTER IX: PLAN OF WAR WHEN THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ENEMY IS THE OBJECT
- APPENDIX SUMMARY OF THE INSTRUCTION GIVEN BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE CROWN PRINCE IN THE YEARS 1810, 1811, AND 1812
- SCHEME WHICH WAS LAID BEFORE GENERAL VON GAUDY
- Arms.
- Artillery.
- Other kinds of Troops
- Applied or Higher Tactics.
- Strategy.
- THE MOST IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES OF THE ART OF WAR TO COMPLETE MY COURSE OF INSTRUCTION OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE CROWN PRINCE
- I.—: GENERAL PRINCIPLES TO BE OBSERVED IN WAR
- II.—: TACTICS OR THE THEORY OF COMBAT
- 1.—: GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- A.—: FOR THE DEFENCE
- B.—: FOR THE ATTACK
- 2.—: PRINCIPLES FOR THE USE OF TROOPS
- 3.—: PRINCIPLES FOR THE USE OF GROUND
- III.—: STRATEGY.
- 1.—: GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- 2.—: DEFENSIVE
- 3.—: ATTACK.
- IV.—: ON THE PRACTICE IN WAR OF THE PRINCIPLES NOW LAID DOWN
- ON THE ORGANIC DIVISION OF ARMED FORCES*
- SKETCH OF A PLAN FOR TACTICS, OR THE THEORY OF THE COMBAT
- I.—: INTRODUCTION: DEFINITION OF THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE CONCEPTIONS OF STRATEGY AND TACTICS.
- II.—: GENERAL THEORY OF THE COMBAT.
- III.—: COMBATS; DEFINITE SUBDIVISIONS IN THE ABSTRACT. (Formation—Order of Battle—Elementary Tactics.)
- A.—: The Different Arms.
- B.—: The Different Arms combined in Attack and Defence.
- IV.—: BATTLES IN CONNECTION WITH COUNTRY AND GROUND.
- A.—: On the Influence of Ground and Combat in general.
- B.—: General Theory of the Defence.
- C.—: Ditto, Ditto, Attack.
- D.—: Defensive Combats of Definite Bodies.
- E.—: Offensive Combats of Definite Bodies.
- V.—: COMBATS WITH DEFINITE OBJECTS.
- A.—: Defence.
- B.—: The Attack.
- VI.—: OF CAMPS AND CANTONMENTS.
- VII.—: OF MARCHES.
- GUIDE TO TACTICS, OR THE THEORY OF THE COMBAT
- I.—: GENERAL THEORY OF THE COMBAT
- Object of the Combat
- Theory of Victory
- The Combat is the Means of gaining a Victory
- What is an Independent Combat?
- Principles of the Combat
- Two Modes of Fighting—Close Combat and Fire Combat
- Relation of the two Forms of Combat in regard to Attack and Defence
- Advantageous Conditions in both Forms of Combat
- Analysis of the Combat
- The Combat consists of two Acts—the Destructive and the Decisive Act
- The Destructive Act
- The Decisive Act
- Their Separation as regards Time
- Plan of Battle—Definition
- Aim of the Plan
- Relation between the Magnitude and Certainty of the Result
- Relation between the magnitude of the result and the price
- Determination of the nature of combat for the separate parts (corps, c.)
- Attack and Defence
- Fire Combat and Close Combat
- Determination of Time and Place
- Time
- Successive Use of Forces
- Depth of the Order of Battle
- Polarity of the Simultaneous and Successive Use of Troops
- Determination of Place.
- Reciprocal Action
- Character of Command
- ERRATA
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