전쟁론 / On War (영문판)

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아이보리잉크 2025년 09월 24일 출간

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* 이 도서는 영어만으로 구성되어 있습니다.
'전쟁론(On War)'은 프로이센의 군사 이론가 카를 폰 클라우제비츠가 집필한 군사전략과 전쟁의 본질에 대한 고전으로, 전쟁의 정치적·사회적 의미부터 실제 전략 운용까지 심도 있게 다루고 있습니다. 본 영문판은 저자의 원래 의도가 잘 반영된 영어 번역으로, 세계적으로 통용되는 군사학적 용어와 구문을 직접 접할 수 있다는 장점이 있습니다. 국제적 독자들과 동일한 관점에서 사고하며, 다양한 분야의 원문 자료와 쉽게 비교할 수 있는 기회를 제공합니다. 전쟁의 철학과 이론을 깊이 이해하고자 하는 독자들에게 필수적인 참고서입니다.

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That the conception of the scientific does not consist alone, or chiefly, in system, and its finished theoretical constructions, requires nowadays no exposition. System in this treatise is not to be found on the surface, and instead of a finished building of theory, there are only materials.
The scientific form lies here in the endeavour to explore the nature of military phenomena to show their affinity with the nature of the things of which they are composed. Nowhere has the philosophical argument been evaded, but where it runs out into too thin a thread the Author has preferred to cut it short, and fall back upon the corresponding results of experience; for in the same way as many plants only bear fruit when they do not shoot too high, so in the practical arts the theoretical leaves and flowers must not be made to sprout too far, but kept near to experience, which is their proper soil.
Unquestionably it would be a mistake to try to discover from the chemical ingredients of a grain of corn the form of the ear of corn which it bears, as we have only to go to the field to see the ears ripe. Investigation and observation, philosophy and experience, must neither despise nor exclude one another; they mutually afford each other the rights of citizenship. Consequently, the propositions of this book, with their arch of inherent necessity, are supported either by experience or by the conception of War itself as external points, so that they are not without abutments.(*)
(*) That this is not the case in the works of many military writers especially of those who have aimed at treating of War itself in a scientific manner, is shown in many instances, in which by their reasoning, the pro and contra swallow each other up so effectually that there is no vestige of the tails even which were left in the case of the two lions.
It is, perhaps, not impossible to write a systematic theory of War full of spirit and substance, but ours hitherto, have been very much the reverse. To say nothing of their unscientific spirit, in their striving after coherence and completeness of system, they overflow with commonplaces, truisms, and twaddle of every kind. If we want a striking picture of them we have only to read Lichtenberg’s extract from a code of regulations in case of fire.
If a house takes fire, we must seek, above all things, to protect the right side of the house standing on the left, and, on the other hand, the left side of the house on the right; for if we, for example, should protect the left side of the house on the left, then the right side of the house lies to the right of the left, and consequently as the fire lies to the right of this side, and of the right side (for we have assumed that the house is situated to the left of the fire), therefore the right side is situated nearer to the fire than the left, and the right side of the house might catch fire if it was not protected before it came to the left, which is protected. Consequently, something might be burnt that is not protected, and that sooner than something else would be burnt, even if it was not protected; consequently we must let alone the latter and protect the former. In order to impress the thing on one’s mind, we have only to note if the house is situated to the right of the fire, then it is the left side, and if the house is to the left it is the right side.
In order not to frighten the intelligent reader by such commonplaces, and to make the little good that there is distasteful by pouring water upon it, the Author has preferred to give in small ingots of fine metal his impressions and convictions, the result of many years’ reflection on War, of his intercourse with men of ability, and of much personal experience. Thus the seemingly weakly bound-together chapters of this book have arisen, but it is hoped they will not be found wanting in logical connection. Perhaps soon a greater head may appear, and instead of these single grains, give the whole in a casting of pure metal without dross.

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저자(글) 카를 폰 클라우제비츠

카를 폰 클라우제비츠(Karl von Clausewitz, 1780~1831)는 프로이센의 군인 겸 군사 이론가로, 나폴레옹 전쟁에 참전한 경험을 바탕으로 전쟁의 본질과 실전을 고찰했습니다. 그는 전쟁을 '정치의 연장'으로 정의하는 혁신적인 관점으로 군사 이론에 큰 영향을 끼쳤으며, '전쟁론'을 통해 현대 전략과 국제관계학 분야에서 여전히 널리 인용되고 있습니다.