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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'
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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Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
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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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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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War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.
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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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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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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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Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.
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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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Blood is the price of victory
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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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In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.
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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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Responsibility and danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind- rather the contrary but wherever they do liberate an individual's judgement and confidence we can be sure that we are in the presence of exceptional ability.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
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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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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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A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.
Carl von Clausewitz
Knowledge must become capability.
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