Europolity. Continuity and Change in European Governance (Vol. 9, No. 2)

We identify first the main characteristics of "On War" including its implicit moral dimension, and subsequently examine the main areas of incoherence in Wolfowitz's interpretation, among which the excessively ambitious definition of "minimum objectives" originated in an erroneous understanding of the concept of "Total War". As a result, we see that this latter misinterpretation frontally clashes against what is most likely Clausewitz's main thesis, i.e. War as a Rational act. War is a political act and as such is part of a dynamic in which decisions must be taken considering their likely effects, in order to reach the optimal outcome. BOOK REVIEW. The Romanian Journal of European Affairs, Vol. 15, No.3, September 2015, 95 pages. ISSN print: 1582-8271, ISSN online: 1841-4273.Dacian DUNA