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Tactics is the art of using troops in battle strategy is the art of using battles to win the war
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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Military Historian
Military Officer
Military Personnel
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Burg bei Magdeburg
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Battle
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War
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Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.
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What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.
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In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what they did at a distance.
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