TY - BOOK ID - 78673976 TI - Battling to the end : conversations with Benoît Chantre AU - Girard, René AU - Chantre, Benoît. PY - 2010 SN - 1628950552 1609171330 9781609171339 9781628950557 9781628960556 1628960558 9780870138775 0870138774 PB - East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Military art and science. KW - Strategy. KW - War. KW - Armed conflict (War) KW - Conflict, Armed (War) KW - Fighting KW - Hostilities KW - Wars KW - International relations KW - Military art and science KW - Peace KW - Military strategy KW - Military doctrine KW - Military power KW - Military science KW - Warfare KW - Warfare, Primitive KW - Naval art and science KW - War KW - Girard, Rene, KW - Clausewitz, Carl von, KW - Klausewitz, Karl von, KW - Klauzevit︠s︡, KW - Von Clausewitz, Carl, KW - Clausewitz, Karl von, KW - Ḳlaʼuzvits, Ḳarl fun, KW - קלאוזביץ KW - Strategy KW - Girard, René, KW - Clausewitz, Carl Philipp Gottfried von, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78673976 AB - In Battling to the End René Girard engages Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), the Prussian military theoretician who wrote On War. Clausewitz, who has been critiqued by military strategists, political scientists, and philosophers, famously postulated that ""War is the continuation of politics by other means."" He also seemed to believe that governments could constrain war. Clausewitz, a firsthand witness to the Napoleonic Wars, understood the nature of modern warfare. Far from controlling violence, politics follows in war''s wake: the means of war have become its ends. René Girard ER -