Welcome back to TDG’s Football Seminar. This week, we get philosophical about the nature of our subject.
In 1832 Marie Von Bruhl published posthumously Carl von Clausewitz’s Vom Kriege. For those of us that do not speak German, you know this book as On War. Today On War has plummeted into the rare echelon of books that everyone selectively quotes from and no one actually reads. “War is the continuation of politics by other means” comes from this work, though likely not in that pithy form. Clausewitz’s intended for his work to be a scientific study of war, rooted in reality.