A social theory of war: Clausewitz and war reconsidered
@article{Sharma2015AST, title={A social theory of war: Clausewitz and war reconsidered}, author={V. Sharma}, journal={Cambridge Review of International Affairs}, year={2015}, volume={28}, pages={327 - 347} }
This article presents a new theory of war that is grounded in the insights of Clausewitz on the social nature of conflict. Clausewitz had argued that war is a political process; he therefore distinguished between ‘war’—understood in political terms—and warfare—understood as fighting. He then created a typology covering a spectrum of war ranging from total to limited, the political stakes of a conflict determining where it would fall on the spectrum. I develop and modify this basic framework by… CONTINUE READING
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