War is the continuation of politics, not its own autonomous sphere.

Evidence

Power is war, the continuation of war by other means. At this point, we can invert Clausewitz’s proposition? and say that politics is the continuation of war by other means. This would imply three things. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 783

Military leadership must always be subordinate to political leadership, or in other words the strategic plan must be the military expression of a particular general policy. Naturally, it may be that in a given situation the politicians are inept, while in the army there are leaders who combine military ability with political ability: it was the case with Caesar and with Napoleon. But we have seen how in Napoleon’s case the change of policies, combined with the presumption that he had a military instrument which was military in the abstract, brought about his downfall. Even in those cases in which political and military leadership is united in the same person, it is the political moment which must prevail over the military. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 500

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the structural subordination of military strategy to political ends, a core Gramscian/Clausewitzian tenet.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 783; Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 500