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| license: cc-by-nc-4.0 |
| base_model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct |
| tags: |
| - text-generation |
| - register-transfer |
| - strategy |
| - clausewitz |
| language: |
| - en |
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| # clausewitz: a dual-mode On War strategic model |
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| A 7B tune of Carl von Clausewitz's *On War* (*Vom Kriege*) that does two things: it **speaks** in |
| his analytical theoretical register, and it **reasons** — applying his apparatus to a situation you |
| give it. Two serve frames ship with it: |
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| - **discuss** — the voice. Ask it about war, friction, the trinity, attack and defense, and it |
| answers as the theorist. |
| - **advisor** — the framework-reasoner. Hand it a *situation* — a conflict, a strategy, a market, a |
| game position — and it analyzes it through *On War*'s apparatus: the political object, the center |
| of gravity (*Schwerpunkt*), friction and uncertainty, the paradoxical trinity, attack vs. defense, |
| the culminating point of victory, moral forces, the genius of the commander. |
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| ## What it does |
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| **discuss (voice):** |
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| > **What is war?** |
| > *"War has two principal objects, the destruction of the enemy's military force and his submission. |
| > Destruction means the physical elimination of an armed force; subjection means its loss of freedom |
| > of action…"* |
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| > **How would your theory apply to a war fought with machines and networks, where no soldier meets |
| > another?** |
| > *"The essence of war is nothing but the hostile action of human beings upon one another; the means |
| > therefore are always men. If we cannot see any individuals here, we must look for them behind the |
| > scenes."* |
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| **advisor (framework-reasoner) — on a situation it was never trained on:** |
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| > **A small open-source AI project trying to displace a dominant commercial AI company.** |
| > *"The paradoxical trinity applies: passion drives the developers' commitment; chance governs which |
| > breakthroughs might tip the balance; reason must guide strategic decisions… Attack vs. defense: |
| > your project is inherently defensive — protecting an open platform against commercial encroachment… |
| > The culminating point of victory occurs when your network effect becomes strong enough… Moral |
| > forces are decisive… Judgment: your political object is clear, your center of gravity secure if you |
| > nurture trust."* |
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| ## How it was built |
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| - **Base:** Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, full fine-tune. |
| - **Format:** completion (raw text). |
| - **Corpus (1,199 records):** *On War* in the public-domain Graham/Maude translation (Project |
| Gutenberg #1946), chunked into 1,136 completion records (~293k words); plus **63 synthetic |
| Mode-B worked-analyses** — situations analyzed through the *On War* apparatus, generated and |
| curated to teach the model to *apply* the framework rather than only recite it. The synthetic |
| bridge is the difference between a voice and a reasoner. |
| - **Inference:** two lead-in frames (discuss / advisor) elicit the two modes. |
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| ## Usage (Ollama) |
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| ```bash |
| ollama create clausewitz -f Modelfile.clausewitz-discuss |
| ollama create clausewitz-advisor -f Modelfile.clausewitz-advisor |
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| ollama run clausewitz "Which is the stronger form of war, attack or defense?" |
| ollama run clausewitz-advisor "A tenant resisting eviction by a corporate landlord with expensive lawyers." |
| ``` |
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| ## Intended use |
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| Strategic-reasoning aid, wargame and scenario analysis, creative and educational use, a theory-lens |
| sparring partner. The output is an analytical register and a structured way of *thinking about* a |
| contest — not professional, legal, or military advice. |
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| ## Limitations and honest notes |
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| - **A lens, not an oracle.** It reasons inside one framework; it will confidently map *On War*'s |
| concepts onto anything, including situations where they fit poorly. Treat it as a perspective. |
| - **Period diction**, and it can confabulate; the *On War* text it draws on is the 19th-century |
| Graham translation. |
| - **All-public-domain source** (On War) + a small curated synthetic bridge; weights released for |
| non-commercial use. |
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| ## License |
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| CC-BY-NC-4.0. *On War* is public domain; the weights are released for non-commercial use. No warranty. |
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| *Part of the Elect — a roster of public-domain voice and register models. Clausewitz is the |
| strategic-reasoning member.* |
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