Frederick the Great's Strategy of Attrition

Delbrück had taken Klausovitz's preffitary note to Fom Krieger as the basis for a two-fold understanding of strategy. He argued that there were two forms of war, one requiring the complete overthrow of the enemy rendering him so politically shattered or militarily defenseless that he would make peace on the victor's terms. The other resulted in the acquisition of territory and concluding in a negotiated settlement. His overall aim was the survival of Prussia, not the destruction of his enemies through fighting. Delbrueck called this a matungstratige, or a strategy of attrition.