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The heart of France lies between Brussels and Paris.

Carl von Clausewitz

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Carl von Clausewitz
Age: 51 †
Born: 1780
Born: June 1
Died: 1831
Died: November 16
Historian
Military Historian
Military Officer
Military Personnel
Military Theorist
Philosopher
Writer
Burg bei Magdeburg
Brussels
Paris
France
Lies
Lying
War
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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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Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy.
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...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.
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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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We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.
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Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.
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Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action.
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
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In 1793 such a force as no one had any conception of made its appearance. War had again suddenly become an affair of the people, and that of a people numbering thirty millions, every one of whom regarded himself as a citizen of the State... By this participation of the people in the war... a whole Nation with its natural weight came into the scale.
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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
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There is only one decisive victory: the last.
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War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.
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In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.
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War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.
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Tactics is the art of using troops in battle strategy is the art of using battles to win the war
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