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Victory, peace, and justice : the neglected trinity

Heuser, B. (2013) Victory, peace, and justice : the neglected trinity. Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ), 69 (2). pp. 6-12. ISSN 1070-0692

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Abstract/Summary

The assumption that the most important aim of war is to create a better peace than existed before the war, i.e. a peace with justice, was self-evident for writers prior to Clausewitz. This does not mean that princes saw this as their priority, but theoreticians did. This changed dramatically with the Napoleonic Wars: Clausewitz initiated an era where writers on strategy paid no heed to what would come after military victory, now seen as the be-all and end-all of war. Terrible consequences flowed from this, and a series of ephemeral victories leading to new wars. It was only around the Second World War, to some in itself the consequence of this obsession with victory and not with peace, that it began to dawn on writers that peace, not military victory must be the ultimate aim to be kept in sight.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:No
Divisions:Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Politics, Economics and International Relations > Politics and International Relations
ID Code:30892
Additional Information:Full text freely available from publication homepage
Publisher:National Defense University Press

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