What is the author's style in On War by Carl von Clausewitz?

Clausewitz writes in a systematic fashion, dividing his ideas up into discrete units and leaving the reader to comprehend the whole based on its parts and their relations. The tone therefore is not quite scientific but it displays a scientific rigor. The tone is neither literary, as it utterly eschews the flowery. The most narrative of the sections occur when Clausewitz describes as historical battle in order to illustrate his ideas. But, by and large, there are not rhetorical flourishes and many terms of art meant to refine an idea to a technical concept that can be rigorously applied.