La pensée stratégique à l’épreuve de la guerre totale De Clausewitz à Liddell Hart

Since Ancient times, strategic thinking has always connected the notions of force and cunning, symbolized by the Homeric warriors, Achilles and Odysseus. In the contemporary period, Carl von Clausewitz and above all his followers have opted for force rather than cunning. The twentieth century total wars may seem to prove them right, but the reality is more complex. Liddell Hart criticizes Clausewitz’s views, sometimes to excess, but he also rehabilitates the notion of grand strategy.