The Yellow Brick Road

Carl von Clausewitz and On War Clausewitz was a part of the Prussian military in the 18th and 19th centuries. He was a great military strategist whose strategies have been used and studied my many military commanders. Clausewitz’s description of war is still applicable to modern warfare. Clausewitz said that the side with the most force and the willingness to use it has the advantage. To this day the side that has the most force and uses it defeats their enemy. The United States has more force than any other country and are willing to use it in time of need. After the attack on 9/11 the United States went and attacked Iraq and Afghanistan. The United States had more force than both Iraq and Afghanistan and was able to do what they wanted with those countries as a result of 9/11. Clausewitz also said that war is a continuation of policy. All wars have a political connections to them. War is caused do to the beliefs of people or a country which involves with politics because that means that people either agree or disagree with the political belief of a country. For example the current president of Iran doesn’t believe that Jews should live so he wants to blow up Israel. That is connected to politics because as president of Iran his political view is that Jews shouldn’t live. Lastly Clausewitz said that with war there is always violence. That is true about modern warfare because when there is something that people or a country does not like there are attacks made as a result and as a result of attacks there will be more attacks which means bloodshed. Clausewitz was a very intelligent man when it came to war. To have war strategies that still apply to modern warfare that were made two hundred years ago is very impressive. It will be interesting to see if his strategies still apply to war as time goes