Table of Contents

Introduction
I. On War's Purpose and Method
1: A Search for Objective Knowledge
2: Validating Concepts and Principles
II. The Nature and Universe of War
3: War is more than a Chameleon
4: Policy, Politics, and Political Determinism
5: Genius, Giving the Rule to Art
III. Strategy, Balancing Purpose and Means
6: Combat, War's Only Means
7: Strategic Principles
8: Center of Gravity
Conclusion

About the Author

Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria II is the Director of Research at the U.S. Army War College. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1981, and the U.S. Army War College in 2002, and has served in a variety of military assignments. He received his doctorate in history from Princeton University in 1994, and is the author of several books and articles on military thinking and contemporary war.

Reviews

Clausewitz and Contemporary War is a thorough analysis that may be useful not only to the military but also to historians, political scientists, and politicians.
*Bruno Colson, War in History*

Antulio Echevarria's Clausewitz and Contemporary War builds on his significant writings on the work and influence of the Prussian theorist... Echevarria has provided one of the more useful contributions to the Clausewitz canon.
*Thomas Bruscino, Joint Forces Quarterly*

Echevarria argues that On War is most readily understood once its 'combat-centric' nature is recognized... Clausewitz intended to write a book that would be useful to fighting soldiers... and Echevarria's analysis is basically a demonstration of how On War stacks up once that ambition is taken seriously.
*Daniel Moran, Journal of Military History*

Antulio Echevarria is an example of the tradition of military historians who were at once interested in war and strategy; and he can tick the box of the (in this context) indispensible knowledge of German and of the historical understanding of German (especially Prussian) culture in the early nineteenth century.
*Beatrice Heuser, RUSI*