The Nature of War: Clausewitz

Historically, since its inception the United States has been engaged in irregular wars. Robert Scaife 's article on "Little War Magazine" discusses some examples in the war frequented by the US military. "In the 20th century America was able to fight peer and peer four times in 100 years, World War II, World War II, Korea War, and the first Gulf War" announced in 2012 As Phil Reynolds in the article states, the historical trend of irregular war is not specific to the United States. As such, "Since the Second World War there were 44 interstate wars and 372 asymmetric conflicts," hence the most likely threat in the United States.

In order to introduce the trinity of war, Clausewitz first wrote that war is a complex combination of passion, opportunity and reason. Some of the reasons for the war are passion, hatred, danger and diligence. To some extent, war is an extension of politics, a rational and intentional activity aimed at changing the actions of opponents. Clausewitz considers war as a category of opportunity. This combination makes war "triangle inconsistency". In short, the war consists of three elements: first, primitive violence, hatred and hostility should be regarded as blind natural forces; secondly, opportunities to create spiritual freedom to roam and Possibility; the subordinate status of the third policy instrument makes it solely to rely on reason. The relationship between these elements is fluid and tense. As war moves toward absolute essence, passion increases and the direction of reasonable war becomes more problematic.

In an introduction to the translation of "war" by Karl von Clausewitz, Anatol Lapoport proposed that "from the essence of warfare" to understand the various concepts of the essence of war. The extent of the decision depends on how humans decide. "This is an artificial phenomenon like a war." It is influenced by our reflections and evaluation. "Analyzing our views and arguments about war is not just a rhetorical purpose, therefore whether the civilization is destroyed by global warfare or whether war is a long-term or recurrent state in the human problem The answer to all important questions (no longer a philosophical question) is how people think, talk and write about the content of war, how the philosophy of war prevails .

War: Florida International University Tahi Aviation Doctor Faculty of Law, Tanza @ fiu.edu