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The analysis of war played a central role in Raymond Aron's overall thought, as exemplified by the Herodotus quotation he chose to have engraved on the ceremonial sword he carried as an elected member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques: "No man should prefer war to peace, since in peace sons bury their fathers, but at war fathers bury their sons." But is it not a bit of a paradox, since he had not directly participated in nor held any real military role during World War II? After 1945, he devoted a considerable amount of time and energy to strategy, more specifically to nuclear strategy, primarily insisting on the primacy of politics in the understanding of war. And this may be the supreme paradox of his life as a committed observer. I would like to show that he was probably a personal victim of the primacy of politics: through his unconscious desire to play a role in French politics, he "overplayed" his opposition to de Gaulle's force de frappe, becoming marginalized in the French political landscape. In 1976 he then authored his masterpiece Penser la guerre, Clausewitz. Like his "role models" Clausewitz but also Thucydides, Machiavelli and Tocqueville, he succeede

Author

Christian Malis†

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2018

Language

EN