¶ … nature of war is noted to be persistent and widely remains the same over time; it is violent and leads to conflicts due to clashing political perspectives, claims casualties most of whom are innocent civilians and also disrupts the societal fabric at the end of the war. Clausewitz formulated a trinity in a bid to explain what war is hinged on and why conflicts often lead to war.
Clausewitz (2006) pointed out at Passion (people), Policy (government), and Probability (Army) as the three pillars upon which war is hinged. He calls these 'the paradoxical trinity' and that they are the three magnets on which war is hinged. His emphasis was more on the romance and stressed on how the different aspects of the paradoxical trinity interact with each other.
The trinity is an interactive set of three forces that drive wars in the actual world. According to Clausewitz (2006) the paradoxical trinity is made up of primordial violence, enmity and hatred that he regarded as blind natural forces. The people aspect of the trinity is manifest in the amount of violence, hatred and passion experienced in a war situation. Probability in the trinity is manifest in the character of the army and commander which gives the direction in terms of chance and probability that the war will break out or when it will stop, and lastly the policy pillar in the trinity is manifest in the Political aims of a given group engaged in a conflict and are expressed as rational calculations (Tziarras, 2013).
Critical examination of the paradoxical trinity points at 'people (passion)' pillar of the trinity as the most crucial and the highest determinant of the direction a conflict takes, whether it grows to a fully fledged...
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