While the date and about the context starts are remote of the contemporary world, however, such a work has a place for all who yearn to understand the clashes and to take the necessary distance to make explicit without dogmatism.
The translation is incomplete - lacking a preface in particular is central to understanding the work. The edition Midnight remains by far the better and most elegant of view the translation point.
"" No one starts a war, or rather person in full possession of his faculties should do without being First of quite sure in his mind of what he expects to accomplish with this war and how he intends to carry it out. "( Clausewitz)