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Clausewitz in English - The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America, 1815-1945 (Hardcover)
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Clausewitz in English - The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America, 1815-1945 (Hardcover)
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The ideas of the Prussian military philosopher Carl von Clausewitz
(1780-1831) underlie most modern military thought. This
intellectual history of the reception of Carl von Clausewitz's
military theories in Britain and the United States thus provides an
important and revealing examination of the evolution of military
thinking in both countries. In the first comprehensive study of the
literature, Christopher Bassford argues that the impact of
Clausewitzian theory - particularly the classic On War, published
in 1832 - has been widely misunderstood, and he follows the trail
of Clausewitzian influence from early-Victorian Britain to 1945. He
examines the attitudes and interpretations of a large array of
commentators, ranging from soldiers like the Duke of Wellington,
"Wully" Robertson, and Dwight Eisenhower to theorists like Julian
Corbett, to journalists and historians like Spenser Wilkinson and
Basil Liddell Hart, to a wide range of reformers, special pleaders,
and propagandists. By exploring the changing ways in which
Clausewitz's ideas have been received by these various groups of
commentators, Bassford also offers some penetrating lessons
concerning the manner in which ideas are ignored, acclaimed,
rejected, distorted, or re-transmitted. In bringing this literature
to light, Clausewitz in English makes a persuasive case for
Clausewitzian theory having had a broad impact on the development
of British and American military thinking. It will be of interest
to a wide range of military and intellectual historians.
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