Carl von Clausewitz
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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
Antoine-Henri Jomini
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Baron Antoine-Henri Jomini was a Swiss-French military officer who served as a general in French and later in Russian service, and one of the most celebrated writers on the Napoleonic art of war. Jomi
Carl von Clausewitz
…by alert commanders. He saw history as a vital check on erudite abstractions that did not accord with experience. In contrast to the early work of Antoine-Henri Jomini, he argued that war could not be quantified or reduced to mapwork, geometry, and graphs. Clausewitz had many aphorisms, of which one of the most famous…
Portrait by George Dawe
Jomini in 1811
Jomini in 1859, by Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre
General Jomini's estate in Russia near Gagino.