Discussion
Carl Von Clausewitz is associated with which of the following statements ?
Answer: C
The keyed statement is War is the constitution of politics by other means.
Carl von Clausewitz wrote in On War (published in 1832) that war is merely the continuation of policy (or politics) by other means. The paper prints 'constitution' where the famous line has 'continuation', but this is plainly the option that reproduces his dictum: war serves political ends and remains subordinate to them.
The other statements contradict him. 'War should steer politics' reverses his order, since for Clausewitz the political aim steers the war. Economic necessity as the root of war is closer to Marxist theory, and the claim that war is periodically desirable belongs to militarist or social Darwinist writers, not to Clausewitz.
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