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Clausewitz and African War - Politics and Strategy in Liberia and Somalia (Hardcover, New)
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Clausewitz and African War - Politics and Strategy in Liberia and Somalia (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cass Military Studies
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Oil, diamonds, timber, food aid, these are some suggestions that
have been put forward as explanations for why people have fought in
African wars in the past decade. Another set of suggestions focuses
on ethnic and clan considerations. These economic and ethnic or
clan explanations contend that wars are specifically not fought by
states for political interests with mainly conventional military
means, as originally suggested by Carl von Clausewitz in the
nineteenth century. Clausewitz's conception of war consisted of
three elements, the government, the army and the people. The
government has ultimate authority over the army, which functions as
its instrument with the support of the population. This is also
called trinitarian war. In the non-trinitarian explanations, such
as the resource and ethnic arguments, wars are more likely fought
by non-state entities, such as warlords. They fight for very
personal and particularistic interests. Military force is not
always used to achieve an aim but often for its own sake. When
military force is used as an instrument it is in an indirect and
irregular manner. This study aims to prove that the interpretation
by Clausewitz is still applicable t
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