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In the age of Clausewitz, war took on new forms: irregular warfare hitherto called "small war" and carried out by commandos (groups led by "a partisan") existed alongside and overlapped with various forms of anti-Napoleonic insurgencies ("people's war" in the words of Heinrich von Brandt and Clausewitz). Clausewitz wrote about both.
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Why is it important?
It is not true that Clausewitz's On War only concerns inter-state war. Book VI specifically deals with insurgencies, how to prepare them and how to stage them.
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This page is a summary of: Small Wars in the Age of Clausewitz: The Watershed Between Partisan War and People's War, Journal of Strategic Studies, February 2010, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/01402391003603623.
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