CARL PHILIPP GOTTLIEB VON
CLAUSEWITZ 1780-1831
THE
OBJECT OF WAR:
A. TO IMPOSE OUR WILL ON THE ENEMY
B.
USING THE MEANS OF MAXIMUM AVAILABLE FORCE WITH
C.
THE AIM OF RENDERING HIM POWERLESS
“WAR
IS MERELY THE CONTINUATION OF POLICY BY OTHER MEANS.”
THE NATURE OF WAR
“THE
MORE POWERFUL AND INSPIRING THE MOTIVES FOR WAR…THE CLOSER WILL WAR APPROACH
ITS ABSTRACT CONCEPT…THE MORE CLOSELY WILL THE MILITARY AIMS AND THE POLITICAL OBJECTS OF WAR COINCIDE,
AND THE MORE MILITARY AND LESS POLITICAL WILL WAR APPEAR TO BE.”
THE NATURE OF WAR
THEORY OF WAR
THEORY OF WAR
NATURE OF WAR
POLITICS AND WAR
“WAR”
DEMOCRATS
LIMITED
WAR
SEEK LIMITED GOALS
RADICAL
REPUBLICANS
TOTAL
WAR
SEEK EXTREME CHANGE
USUALLY,
THE TYPE WAR IS DICTATED BY THE OBJECT SOUGHT
“WAR”
DEMOCRATS (AND MANY OTHERS)
RE-UNION
RESPECT PROPERTY
AVOID DEVISTATION
WAR: THEORY AND PRACTICE
CONFEDERATES
RE-UNION IMPOSSIBLE
PEACE=INDEPENDENCE
RADICAL REPUBLICANS
PUNISH THE SOUTH
FREE THE SLAVES
RECONSTRUCT THE SOUTH
LEE
1862/63
2ND
BULL RUN (MANASSAS) (AUGUST)
LEE vs POPE-LEE’S VICTORY
ANTIETAM
(SHARPSBURG)(SEPTEMBER)
LEE vs MCCLELLAN DRAW
FREDRICKSBURG
(DECEMBER)
LEE
vs BURNSIDE-LEE’S VICTORY
CHANCELLORSVILLE
(MAY)
LEE vs HOOKER-LEE’S
VICTORY
GETTYSBURG
(JULY)
LEE vs MEADE LEE DEFEATED
1862-JULY 1863
ANTIETAM CAMPAIGN
ANTIETAM AND EMANCIPATION
MCCLELLAN’S
“INSTRUCTIONS” FOR THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR FOR MR. LINCOLN
NOT
TO SUBJUGATE THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE
NO
CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY
NO
FORCED ABOLITION
WAR
NOT TO BE VISITED UPON CIVILIAN POPULATION
EMANCIPATION
WILL”DISINTEGRATE OUR PRESENT ARMIES.”
EMANCIPATION
A
YEAR BEFORE, LINCOLN WOULD HAVE AGREED
NOW
CONVINCED ABOLITION A MILITARY NECESSITY
CONSIDERATIONS
CONSTITUTIONALITY
BORDER
(SLAVE) STATES
NORTHERN DEMOCRATS
SOUTHERN UNIONISTS
EFFECT
ON NORTHERN POPULATION
“DECISIVE
AND EXTENSIVE MEASURES MUST BE ADOPTED” A. LINCOLN