Moreover, she takes aim at an older generation of Clausewitz scholars who variously doubted Clausewitz’s familiarity with important intellectual debates of his time (pp. Surveying recent analyses of Clausewitz’s earlier works, Scheipers argues that the emerging scholarship thus far has failed to address how Clausewitz’s thoughts about small war fed into his theory of war more generally (p. In her volume, Sibylle Scheipers adds important intellectual, socio-political and historical context to our understanding of the continuities and evolution in Clausewitz’s thinking about warfare. Drawing on his early works written during the Napoleonic Wars, in particular his writings on what today would be referred to as small-unit operations and partisan, or guerilla warfare, Christopher Daase, Beatrice Heuser, Martin Rink, and others have identified previously unrecognized continuities in Clausewitz’s thinking, which extend from his analyses of ‘small war’ to his posthumously published magnum opus, On War. A growing group of scholars is challenging the widespread view that Carl von Clausewitz was primarily a theorist of major interstate war.
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