On War

An interesting but dated read on one of humankind's central endeavors: War. We're probably all familiar with Clausewitz's phrase that "war is the continuation of politics by other means" but we may not know much else about this soldier, thinker and writer. His work is regarded as one of the central writings about war in the whole pantheon of war literature. What many do not realize is that this compilation was always regarded by the author as incomplete and a work continuously in progress. A grasp of Frederick the Great and Napoleon's campaigns would provide a reader a greater reference to many topics Clausewitz discusses.