Clausewitzian

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1. Adhering to or described by the military theory of Carl von Clausewitz.

   It was a campaign of disruption, conceived and conducted along classic, Clausewitzian lines.

   1958, Paul Kecskemeti (RAND Corporation), Strategic Surrender: The Politics of Victory and Defeat, Stanford University Press, 31

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   The Jominian and Clausewitzian conceptions, with their checkerboard and geometrical analogies, were plausible enough when applied to the medium sized armies operating in the French-German-Italian theatre of the Napoleonic period.

   1916 January, Arthur L. Conger, “Moltke's Plans of Campaign”, in Military Historian and Economist, volume 1, page 297

   Indeed, I thought it seemed like a waste of time and intelligence even to speak of this war as rational activity, as a Clausewitzian continuation of politics by other means.

   2009, James Der Derian, Virtuous war: mapping the military-industrial-media-entertainment network, 2nd edition, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page xxii