Fitzsimmons, ScottFitzsimmons, ScottMcDougall, Alex2020-12-182020-12-1820071480-63391480-6378http://hdl.handle.net/1880/112877https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/38472This paper provides a brief overview of major inter-theoretical relationships between the works of Carl von Calusewitz, Sun Tzu, Alfred Mahan, and Julian Corbett. Specifically, it undertakes a comparative analysis of these authors’ writings on the nature of war; the use of theory in the study of warfare; the primacy of politics; limited and absolute war; the principle of decisive battle; the principle of concentration; the role of the people in war; friction, uncertainty, and the means to overcome these problems; and the offence and defence in war.© Innovations: A Journal of Politics 1998-2040journal article