---
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
base_model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct
tags:
  - text-generation
  - register-transfer
  - strategy
  - clausewitz
language:
  - en
---

# clausewitz: a dual-mode On War strategic model

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:

- **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.

## What it does

**discuss (voice):**

> **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…"*

> **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."*

**advisor (framework-reasoner) — on a situation it was never trained on:**

> **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."*

## How it was built

- **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.

## Usage (Ollama)

```bash
ollama create clausewitz         -f Modelfile.clausewitz-discuss
ollama create clausewitz-advisor -f Modelfile.clausewitz-advisor

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."
```

## Intended use

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.

## Limitations and honest notes

- **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.

## License

CC-BY-NC-4.0. *On War* is public domain; the weights are released for non-commercial use. No warranty.

*Part of the Elect — a roster of public-domain voice and register models. Clausewitz is the
strategic-reasoning member.*