ABSTRACT
The role of the Trinity and its relationship to Clausewitz's claim that war is a continuation of politics. When one understands that war is shaped by the interplay of complex forces hostility, chance and uncertainty, and policy it is clear that strategic calculations must be constantly re-correlated to account for 'ends and means'. Although the extent of this interplay will be explored in the concluding chapter, deals primarily with gauging the extent to which 'passion, hatred and enmity' impacted on the nature of the wars of former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995. Although a supporter of the Trinity as central to Clausewitz's opus, Echevarria argues that: It is a view supported by Herberg-Rothe, who notes that: A complete reduction of war to an instrument of policy would be a contradiction, as it would conflict with the 'Wondrous Trinity'.
