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