The Clausewitz Collection (merged thread)

[jmm99]

Here is my take in a graphic, where policy coordinates the political and military struggles.

In practice, we are looking at some variant of CvC's "war cabinet" - another "trinity", consisting of representatives from Policy (in charge), Political Struggle and Military Struggle:

CIMIC CvC.jpg

For CvC's views on the "war cabinet", see this post on another thread "The art of war in its highest point of view is policy" - long quote from Book 8, Ch 6 (1873 Graham trans), Influence of the Political Object on the Military Object.

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Wilf, the Political Struggle is part of a War (at times, the major part; at other times, not so significant); but agreed it is not "war" in the sense of organized violence by armed forces; nor, following its exclusion as "war", can it be called "warfare". That being said, the political and military struggles must be coordinated - a job for Policy, to ride herd on the political and military cats.