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There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment
Carl von Clausewitz
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Carl von Clausewitz
Age: 51 †
Born: 1780
Born: June 1
Died: 1831
Died: November 16
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Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.
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Knowledge must become capability.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
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The best strategy is always to be very strong.
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War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
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A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.
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Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
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The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected.
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Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.
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To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.
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In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.
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War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
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