Tactics – Episode 15: Clausewitz’s ‘On War’

War isn’t random chaos—it’s politics by other means, and nobody understood that better than Carl von Clausewitz.

A soldier first and a thinker second, Clausewitz fought Napoleon, survived the carnage, and wrote down the brutal, unchanging truths about war: its friction, its purpose, and its uncontrollable fire once unleashed.

His lessons shaped every conflict since—and if you think they’re outdated, history has a graveyard full of people who thought the same.