/kloc-The restoration and repeated defeats caused by the French Revolution at the end of 0/8 are related to a new historical era-the bourgeois revolution era. As the military ideological and theoretical system of this era, the most important point of On War is that it profoundly reveals the relationship between war and politics, and puts forward for the first time that "war is the continuation of another means of politics". Lenin thought this was a wise saying and the theoretical basis for examining the significance of every war. Lenin studied the nature of World War I from this point of view. He pointed out that the politics practiced by imperialist countries for half a century is to plunder colonies and suppress the workers' movement, and the chauvinists of the second international community put forward the slogan of "defending the motherland" in this war, actually serving the imperialist aggressive policy.

This Chinese translation is based on the German version of the former German Democratic Republic and the Ministry of National Defense Press 1957.