TY - BOOK AU - GARDNER Nikolas TI - Clausewitzian friction and twenty-first-century war: the paradox of technology PY - 2024/// KW - THEORY OF WAR KW - TECHNOLOGY KW - UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES N2 - This article explains that while friction manifests itself in a variety of ways, Clausewitz argues that it is one of the principal reasons that real wars seldom escalate to the extremes that abstract theory suggests they should ER -