''Although Carl von Clausewitz participated in many military campaigns, he was primier work on the philisophy of war. Other soldiers before him had written treaties on various military subjects, but none undertook a great philosophical examination of war on the scale of Clausewitz's. On War is considered to be the first modern book of military strategy. This is due mainly to Clausewitz' integration of political, social, and economic issues as some of the most important factors in deciding the outcomes of a war. It is one of the most important treatises on stategy ever written, anf continues to be required