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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
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Burg bei Magdeburg
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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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Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.
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Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
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War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.
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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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To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.
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War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.
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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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Knowledge must become capability.
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
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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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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war. Only great and general battles can produce great results. Blood is the price of victory.
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War is the province of danger.
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In War, the young soldier is very apt to regard unusual fatigues as the consquence of faults, mistakes, and embarrassment in the conduct of the whole, and to become distressed and depondent as a consequence. This would not happen if he had been prepared for this beforehand by exercises in peace.
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A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.
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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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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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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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No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy
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Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
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