... view of the general primacy of policy over the waging of war, the view we then find in Book VIII andChapter 1 of On War. He sees the causes of Napoleon’s total defeat in 1815in the influence of political ... and Napoleon, the ‘god of war ,4 Clausewitz’s Puzzle 4. The primacy of defence as the stronger form of war, versus the promise of decisive results that was embodied in the seizure of offen-sive ... victories?What were the consequences for the lessons of Jena as they had relatedto his existential understanding of war, the expansion of violence, the primacy of the attack, and the primacy of military...