Carl von Clausewitz

Part of the Strategic Studies curriculum

Online Reading Material

Clausewitz, Carl von. Col. J. J. Graham, translator. Vom Kriege. On War, Complete eBook posted on Clausewitz Homepage.
Clausewitz, Carl von., Ed. & Translated by Peter Paret & Daniel Moran, Two Letters on Strategy. Ft. Leavenworth: Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1984 (Also available in PDF format).
Bassford, Christopher. Clausewitz in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America, 1815-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Full text on-line here.

The Clausewitz Homepage (http://www.clausewitz.com) - Excellent website maintained by Pr. Christopher Bassford of the National War College. Contains texts from & on C. von Clausewitz, exhaustive bibliographies on Clausewitz in english, german, french...
Gerhard Muhm , "German Tactics in the Italian Campaign", (tr. from "La tattica tedesca nella campagna d'Italia", in Linea gotica avamposto dei Balcani, a cura di Amedeo Montemaggi. Roma: Edizioni Civitas, 1993) http://www.larchivio.org/xoom/gerhardmuhm2.htm

Clausewitz, Carl Von, tr. Graham, JJ (2004) On War (New York: Barnes and Noble) ISBN 0-7607-5597-3 - Oldest English translation
Clausewitz, Carl Von, edited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret. On War, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1976, rev.1984, ISBN 0-691-05657-9 - Modern translation

For a note on the differences in the translations, see this topic's discussion page.

Aron, Raymond, translated by Christine Booker and Norman Stone, Clausewitz: Philosopher of War. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983.
Handel, Michael I. (ed.), Clausewitz and Modern Strategy. London: Frank Cass, 1986. ISBN 0-7146-4053-0
Handel, Michael I., Masters of War. Classical Strategic Thought. London: Routledge, 2001 (third ed.; 1992, 1996). ISBN 071468132-6
Heuser, Beatrice, Reading Clausewitz. London: Pimlico, 2002. ISBN 0-7126-6484-X
Nooy, Gert de, The Clausewitzian Dictum and The Future of Western Military Strategy. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1997. ISBN 90-411-0455-0
Paret, Peter. Clausewitz and the State: The Man, His Theories, and His Times. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976.
Rothfels, Hans “Clausewitz” pages 93-113 from The Makers of Modern Strategy edited by Edward Mead Earle, Gordon A. Craig & Felix Gilbert, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1943.
Smith, Hugh, On Clausewitz: A Study of Military and Political Ideas. London: Palgrave, 2005. ISBN 1-4039-3587-4