Searching for the Stronger Form of War in the 20th Century: The Defense or the Offense
Oliver J. Moss
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Searching for the Stronger Form of War in the 20th Century: The Defense or the Offense

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A key theoretical proposition offered by Clausewitz in On War was that the defense was the stronger form of war over the offense. Members of the military, theorists, and historians have intermittently grappled with this proposition and have tended to reach conclusions flawed by poor analytical methodology or by the manipulation or Clausewitzian criteria. One would be distorting the very essence of Clausewitz to suggest one form of war always maintained an advantage over the other. Even when discussing the offense and defense Clausewitz recognized that the relationship of one to the other was s...