Tolstoy established himself as a moral and religious leader.Soldiers before this time had written treatises on various military subjects, but none had undertaken a great philosophical examination of war on the scale of those written by Clausewitz and Leo Tolstoy, both of which were inspired by the events of the Napoleonic Era.What Clausewitz and Tolstoy were trying to do was to derive from the experiences of history the laws governing it. Although they failed, these 19th-century thinkers, each operating from a different perspective.In his great novel, War and Peace, Tolstoy gives Clausewitz a cameo role during the Battle of Borodino. It’s no fantasy; Clausewitz was actually there as a Prussian officer attached to Tsar Alexander’s army.In many
