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In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.
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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Whenever armed forces . . . are used, the idea of combat must be present. . . . The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time.
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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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Battles decide everything.
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