Discussion
"War is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will." The above statement's author is :
Answer: A
The statement is by Carl von Clausewitz.
It is the definition of war at the opening of Book One of On War, the Prussian general's treatise published after his death in 1832. Clausewitz goes on to describe war as 'a continuation of politics by other means', and the two lines are the best-known in strategic studies.
Halford Mackinder was the British geographer of the Heartland theory. Hans Morgenthau wrote Politics Among Nations, the classic of realist international relations. Henry Kissinger was a scholar of diplomacy and US Secretary of State. None of them wrote this definition.
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