Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz was a Prussian army officer and military theorist who stressed the "moral" and political aspects of waging war. His most notable work, Vom Kriege, though unfinishe
Portrait by Wilhelm Wach, c. 1830
Marie von Clausewitz (née, Countess von Brühl)
Clausewitz as a young man
War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain milit
United States Army soldiers engaged in a firefight with Taliban insurgents during the War in Afghanistan, 2009
The remains of dead Crow Indians killed and scalped by Sioux c. 1874
Les Grandes Misères de la guerre depict the destruction unleashed on civilians during the Thirty Years' War.
Ruins of Warsaw's Napoleon Square in the aftermath of World War II