Clausewitz makes it clear that war is about struggle that seeks to impose a desired status quo, and war is different than other realms of human competition because it applies the ultimate sanction, killing and destruction, or the threat of it. Carl Von Clausewitz’s concern with war was both practical and theoretical. However, there have been much debate around the continued relevance of Clausewitzian concepts and his Trinity to contemporary conflicts as Martin van Creveld seems to have been right when he predicted… A Prussian army officer and veteran of the Napoleonic Wars—including Prussia’s darkest hours during the 1806 Campaign, he lived through exciting military and intellectual times. The primacy of policy has dominated modern strategic thinking since Carl von Clausewitz noted that war is not an independent phenomenon but a modification of political intercourse. The primacy of policy has dominated modern strategic thinking since Carl von Clausewitz noted that war is not an independent phenomenon but a modification of political intercourse. Clausewitz’ goal with On War was to come up with a universal definition of war or the essence of war, while allowing for the subjectivity of a changing character of war. War has an enduring nature that demonstrates four continuities: a political dimension, a human dimension, the existence of uncertainty and that it is a contest of wills. He bequeathed to us, in his unfinished masterpiece Yom Kriege,I a trove ofprovocative ideas, many of which retain remarkable contemporary value. In his main work, On War, he sets out a theory of war and a theory of warfare. For some 150 years those who have sought to understand war have turned to Clausewitz- to explain the logic behind wars or to condemn its applicability to modern warfare. At the conclusion of World War I, Clausewitz’s theory of real war began to gain ground. Strategic theory: the primacy of policy. Clausewitz’s writing was far more pertinent to the problems and issues of World War I than was Ferdinand Foch’s Principles of War published in 1903 – only 11 years before the war began. Carl Von Clausewitz: Theory of War Carl Von Clausewitz: Theory of War Introduction The (liberal) reduction in the aspect of rationality resulted in a time of revolutionary change to the new epoch of the war 1989/91, however, too far-reaching criticisms of Clausewitz's theory. The two are intrinsically related; his theory of warfare is designed to work within his theory of war. It is not what we have thought, but rather how we have thought it, that we consider to be our contribution to theory. JOHN E. SHEPHARD, JR. Carl von Clausewitz occupies a position of well-deservedprominence in the small pantheon ofWestern military theorists. Though often confused with absolute war, and even used interchangeably, real war is war as it exists in the real world. Foch gave lip service to the name of Clausewitz whose work he claimed to have read and absorbed, but his own writing is of a totally different character. The students of international relations and strategic studies seek from Clausewitz not a theory of politics but an analysis of war. Carl Von Clausewitz: Theory of War Introduction The (liberal) reduction in the aspect of rationality resulted in a time of revolutionary change to the new epoch of the war 1989/91, however, too far-reaching criticisms of Clausewitz's theory. On War: Is Clausewitz Still Relevant? Tiha von Ghyczy, Bolko von Oetinger, and Christopher Bassford [1] Carl von Clausewitz has been studied extensively for 150 years by dedicated scholars and is acknowledged to be one of the few truly great writers on war. Carl von Clausewitz is regarded as one of the foremost philosophers of war to have ever lived. War – these events have led to a reinterpretation of the theory of war and a re-thinking of strategic studies’ key premises, in particular Carl von Clausewitz’s treatise.