War without contact: Berenhorst, Bülow, and the avoidance of violence as the core paradigm of military science

• Autores: Arthur Kuhle
• Localización: War in history, ISSN-e 1477-0385, ISSN 0968-3445, Vol. 28, Nº. 4 (noviembre), 2021, págs. 755-780
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Georg Heinrich von Berenhorst and Dietrich von Bülow were perhaps the most inspirational war theorists of the late eighteenth century. Following Berenhorst, Bülow developed a theory that interpreted war as a dynamic system without physical contact, prompting Carl von Clausewitz to write a crushing critique that up to the present day obfuscates Bülow’s ideas. However, Clausewitz’s critique is based on a fundamental misconception, which illustrates how this decisive swerve in war theory continues to be neglected. This article demonstrates how Berenhorst and Bülow strived for introducing Newtonian standards to human behaviour for a pacifist theory of war.