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War is the province of danger.
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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There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.
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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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If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to the next, but instead succumb to the idea that the capture of certain geographical points or the seizure of undefended provinces are of value in themselves, we are liable to regard them as windfall profits.
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Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.
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Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.
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No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy
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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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In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.
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Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.
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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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Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective but such cases are rare.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.
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Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.
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We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.
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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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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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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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Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.
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To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'
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