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Prompt: For this analysis paper, you will analyze Book I, Chapter I, of Carl von Clausewitz’s On War, as well as a scholarly secondary source of your choosing. This secondary source must relate to the main source and must support your argument.
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What is War?
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Clausewitz began his work by going against the various notions that society holds
regarding the issue of armed conflict. His word reveal his wish to counter conflicts because of
their destructive nature. Following this wish, he thinks of a process that can be applied in
making an enemy harmless without experiencing or causing the pain. He perceives a lack of
moral strength as a factor that can be used by people's enemies to win against them.
Following this perspective, therefore, Clausewitz starts his analysis of war following the basis
that it should not be geared towards killing, overthrowing, or inflicting pain to the opponent,
“Now, philanthropists may easily imagine there is a skillful method of disarming and
overcoming an enemy without causing great bloodshed, and that this is the proper tendency
of the Art of War.” (Carl von Clausewitz: ON WAR. Book 1, ...