JAWS Reading List
Explore the JAWS Reading List, a curated collection featuring timeless strategy classics like On War by Carl von Clausewitz and The Art of War by Sunzi. Discover essential books on history and business to sharpen your tactical thinking and leadership skills.
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The Art of War
by Sunzi
Sun Tzu. The art of war. Study of planning and conduct of military operations.
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On War
by Carl von Clausewitz
Carl von Clausewitz was not only an officer who served with great distinction during the Napoleonic campaigns but was also a military historian and intellectual of the highest order—at ease with both the strategic doctrines of his time and the larger movements of thought in the world around him. Out of these elements he distilled his classic discussion of the nature and meaning of one of humankind's central endeavors, war—which he famously declared to be "the continuation of politics by different means." Though unfinished at his death, On War contains all his important ideas about absolute versus limited war, the intrinsic violence of war, and its necessary subjugation to political ends. It would be impossible to overestimate the influence of this book on subsequent strategic thinking, on the political considerations that underlie such thinking, and on the general understanding of human conflict.
