"Clausewitzian" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1916 January, Arthur L. Conger, “Moltke's Plans of Campaign”, in Military Historian and Economist, volume 1, page 297",
          "text": "The Jominian and Clausewitzian conceptions, with their checkerboard and geometrical analogies, were plausible enough when applied to the medium sized armies operating in the French-German-Italian theatre of the Napoleonic period.",
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          "ref": "1958, Paul Kecskemeti (RAND Corporation), Strategic Surrender: The Politics of Victory and Defeat, Stanford University Press, 31",
          "text": "It was a campaign of disruption, conceived and conducted along classic, Clausewitzian lines."
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          "ref": "2009, James Der Derian, Virtuous war: mapping the military-industrial-media-entertainment network, 2nd edition, Taylor & Francis, page xxii",
          "text": "Indeed, I thought it seemed like a waste of time and intelligence even to speak of this war as rational activity, as a Clausewitzian continuation of politics by other means.",
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        "Adhering to or described by the military theory of Carl von Clausewitz."
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