 | 1976 - 116 pagine
...end... War... is an act of policy... War... is a continuation of political activity by other means.... The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it. ... War should never be thought of as something autonomous but always as an instrument of policy War... | |
 | 1983 - 330 pagine
...end. . . . War ... is an act of policy ... a continuation of political activity by other means. . . . The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it. ... War should never be thought of as something autonomous but always as an instrument of policy. .... | |
 | George Edward Thibault - 1984 - 916 pagine
...end .... War . . . is an act of policy . . . a continuation of political activity by other means .... 9 s .... War should never be thought of as something autonomous but always as an instrument of policy ....... | |
 | Howard Jones - 1988 - 230 pagine
...could do no more than modify political aims. "The political object is the goal," Clausewitz concluded. "War is the means of reaching it, and means can never be considered in isolation from their purpose."1 The introduction of the airplane in 1903 added a new dimension to the "political instrument"... | |
 | James J. Sheehan - 1989 - 998 pagine
...policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political activity by other means. . . . The political object is the goal, war is the means...means can never be considered in isolation from their purpose.' War is an intrinsically political activity since politics determines war's goals and character... | |
 | Stanislav Andreski - 1992 - 252 pagine
...conducting it ... war is ... a true instrument, a continuation of political action by other means .... The political object is the goal, war is the means...means can never be considered in isolation from their purpose. In keeping with the then prevailing (and even today far from extinct) 'essentialist' view... | |
 | John N. Petrie - 1996 - 434 pagine
...their roles, runs counter to the fundamental nature of war, and therefore cannot long avoid failure: "The political object is the goal, war is the means...means can never be considered in isolation from their purpose." 22 The subordination of war to policy also suggests why the military result of war is never... | |
 | Hent de Vries - 1997 - 420 pagine
...Michael Howard and Peter Paret (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), 87. As Clausewitz observes: "The political object is the goal, war is the means...means can never be considered in isolation from their purpose." 32. Schmitt, Concept of the Political, 35. 33. For a discussion of Benjamin's theory of means... | |
 | Andrei A. Kokoshin - 1998 - 244 pagine
...but however much it affects political aims in a given case, it will never do more than modify them. The political object is the goal, war is the means...means can never be considered in isolation from their purpose. 33 31. Many Germans were in the service of Ivan the Terrible in the sixteenth century. Later... | |
 | Julius Thomas Fraser - 1999 - 330 pagine
...true political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, carried on with other means. . . . The political object is the goal, war is the means...means can never be considered in isolation from their purpose."78 Those purposes change, but wars as the means remain. A survey of the history of warfare... | |
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and means can never be considered in isolation from their purpose. 
