Clausewitz on Small War
Clausewitz on Small War
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克劳塞维茨论小规模战争
DOI：
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198737131.001.0001
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发表时间：
2015
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5.9
通讯作者：
James W. Davis
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作者：
James W. Davis
作为公认的最重要的战争理论家之一，卡尔·冯·克劳塞维茨在这一问题上的重要思想并不广为人知。在英语世界中，除了他的主要作品《论战争》（On War）之外，几乎没有人熟悉他的其他作品，尽管这部作品没有完成，在他死后出版，有许多译本。尽管克劳塞维茨关于战争主题的著作要多得多，但其中大部分文本从未被翻译过。
在《克劳塞维茨论小规模战争》中，克里斯托弗·达斯和詹姆斯·W。戴维斯开始纠正这种不幸的事态。在本卷中，他们汇集并翻译了克劳塞维茨致力于分析非对称、非常规、游击战和小单位战争的最重要文本，包括克劳塞维茨1810年和1811年在普鲁士战争学院举办的《小规模战争讲座》。用克劳塞维茨早期关于小规模战争的著作来加深我们对他的理解，我们可以得出这样的结论：不对称战争并不是一种历史发展，不像许多当代战争和军事战略学者所主张的那样，可以被称为克劳塞维茨时代之前或之后的战争。相反，克劳塞维茨本人是一位早期的叛乱和不对称战争理论家，他的见解在今天仍然适用。这本书是士兵、军事战略家、战争历史学家和国际安全学生的必读之书。
Widely recognized as one of the most important theorists of warfare, important strands of Carl von Clausewitz's thinking on the subject are not widely known. In the English-speaking world, few are familiar with anything other than his major, though unfinished and posthumously published, opus On War, which is available in numerous translations. Although the corpus of Clausewitz's writings on the topic of warfare is far greater, most of these texts have never been translated.
In Clausewitz on Small War, Christopher Daase and James W. Davis begin to redress this unfortunate state of affairs. In this volume they have assembled and translated Clausewitz's most important texts devoted to the analysis of asymmetric, unconventional, guerrilla, and small unit warfare, including Clausewitz's Lectures on Small War, held at the Prussian War Academy in 1810 and 1811. Augmenting our understanding of Clausewitz with his early writings on Small War leads to the conclusion that asymmetric warfare is not an historical development that can be termed pre- or post-Clausewitzian as many contemporary scholars of war and military strategy argue. Rather, Clausewitz himself emerges as an early theorist of insurgency and asymmetric warfare with insights that are relevant today. The book is a must read for soldiers, military strategists, historians of war, and students of international security.