Book Reviews

摘要

Clausewitz presented his analysis of war nearly 200 years ago yet he is still frequently cited, exhaustively studied in books and articles, and widely discussed at conferences such as the one that gave rise to this volume. But can he retain his relevance in the twenty-first century-when war is apparently being transformed by advanced technology, the widespread availability of weapons, the decline of the state and its monopoly of violence, global communications and so on? For the contributors to this book the answer is clearly 'yes'. Clausewitz is also still relevant, as the editors point out, to at least one terrorist whose copy of On War was found in an Al Qaeda safe house in Afghanistan during the US-led war of 2001. The passages marked in this copy related-significantly enough-not to Clausewitz's discussion of war as an instrument of policy but to his analysis of courage.