An Analysis of Grand Inquisitor

AN ANALYSIS OF

What Is War

Written By: Karl Von Clausewitz

Prepared by : Haverick Foong, October 2014

1. War is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will by putting the compulsory submission of the enemy as the highest goal.
2. The condition of the cruelness of war, depends on the social condition of the States.
3. There are two motives that lead to war, instinctive hostility and hostile intention.
4. Hostility will occurs without any events, it is by default the natural reflection that derivate from feeling, or in civilized nation, through understanding.
5. Sometimes, feeling is not the only cause of War. In fact, interest is involved.
6. Civilized nation has  a way to treat war, in which they do not merely rely on rude act, but applying force with intelligence.
7. Human conduct war in two ways, objectively and subjectively. Subjective way will produce less efficiency, while objective way will require data to be furnished by the fact in the reality.
8. The idea of Law of probability turns war into a game, which cross out the uncertainty of war, so that chance and good luck (accidental) could both take into consideration within war.
9. War is an art,  because it is not merely violence, as it included moral force that can never reach absolute positivity.
10. Clausewitz argues that the purpose of war is to disarm your opponent and thereby force him to give you want you want. Based on this premise, he concludes that wars are essentially unwinnable on the battlefield: it is virtually impossible to completely disarm your opponent through might alone. Instead, your opponent at some point has to decide to give you what you want- and getting your opponent to come to that decision means that a war must be fought as part of a larger political strategy.