On War¶
Clausewitz, C. v. (1976). On War. Vom Kriege.
Cited by¶
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Primes¶
- Center Of Gravity
- Military strategy (origin): the enemy's army, capital, alliance, or public will;
This sourceEdited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976 (orig. 1832). Originates the Schwerpunkt / center of gravity as the source of an adversary's power whose disruption decides the contest — the enemy's army, capital, alliance, or public will.
- Military strategy (origin): the enemy's army, capital, alliance, or public will;
- Culminating Point
- The pattern's home is military operations, where Clausewitz named the Höhepunkt des Sieges — Napoleon's advance to Moscow in 1812, the Wehrmacht's reach toward Stalingrad in 1942, imperial Japanese expansion to Guadalcanal, each a victory that beyond a point became its own undoing.
This sourceEdited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976 [orig. 1832]. Originates the culminating point of victory (Höhepunkt des Sieges) in Book VII, ch. 22: the point past which an offensive's continued advance destroys the advantage it built.
- The pattern's home is military operations, where Clausewitz named the Höhepunkt des Sieges — Napoleon's advance to Moscow in 1812, the Wehrmacht's reach toward Stalingrad in 1942, imperial Japanese expansion to Guadalcanal, each a victory that beyond a point became its own undoing.
- Mass
- Military strategy. Concentrate combat power at the decisive place and time; concentration moves and the dual failure of being concentrated against (defeat in detail) are the offense and defense of the same insight.
This sourceEdited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976 (orig. 1832). Articulates concentration of force (Schwerpunkt) at the decisive point and the dual danger of defeat in detail.
- Military strategy. Concentrate combat power at the decisive place and time; concentration moves and the dual failure of being concentrated against (defeat in detail) are the offense and defense of the same insight.
Mechanisms¶
- Terrain or Topology Position Review
- The military notion of a center of gravity — the source from which a system's structure derives its cohesion and strength — captures why reading topology before acting matters: advantage concentrates where the structure says it does, not where the surface looks impressive.
This sourceTreats center of gravity as a military-strategic notion locating where force, connection, and dependence concentrate.
- The military notion of a center of gravity — the source from which a system's structure derives its cohesion and strength — captures why reading topology before acting matters: advantage concentrates where the structure says it does, not where the surface looks impressive.
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