Total and Limited War and Politics

An essay on the spectrum of intensity between force, fraud, politics, and war.

In his masterpiece On War, the famed Carl von Clausewitz asserted that:

War is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfil our will. Violence arms itself with the inventions of Art and Science in order to contend against violence. Self-imposed restrictions, almost imperceptible and hardly worth mentioning, termed usages of International Law, acco…