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Review: On WarUser Review - Tony Grover - GoodreadsCvC is a broken down old calvary soldier maundering on over his glass of port by the fireside. War is not politics, except for the strange time he lived in. War is a forest fire that rarely ends before all available fuel is consumed. Politics is war's simpering, capering wretched servant. Read full review Review: On WarUser Review - Eddy Allen - GoodreadsCarl von Clausewitz's On War has been called, "not simply the greatest, but the only truly great book on war." It is an extraordinary attempt to construct an all-embracing theory of how war works. Its ... Read full review Related booksContents
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