Vom Kriege is a book on war and military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830, and published posthumously by his wife Marie von Brühl in 1832. It is one of the most important treatises on political-military analysis and strategy ever written, and remains both controversial and influential on strategic thinking.
Title page of the original German edition Vom Kriege, published in 1832.
Military strategy is a set of ideas implemented by military organizations to pursue desired strategic goals. Derived from the Greek word strategos, the term strategy, when first used during the 18th century, was seen in its narrow sense as the "art of the general", or "the art of arrangement" of troops. and deals with the planning and conduct of campaigns, the movement and disposition of forces, and the deception of the enemy.
Entry of Napoleon into Berlin by Charles Meynier. After defeating Prussian forces at Jena, the French Army entered Berlin on 27 October 1806.
19th century musketeers from Wellington at Waterloo by Robert Alexander Hillingford, 18 June 1815