Clausewitz Carl von
Clau·se·witz
(klou′zə-vĭts), Carl von 1780-1831. Prussian army officer and military theorist whose posthumously published On War (1832) pragmatically interprets war as an instrument of policy.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.