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Carl von Clausewitz
Age: 51 †
Born: 1780
Born: June 1
Died: 1831
Died: November 16
Historian
Military Historian
Military Officer
Military Personnel
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Only great and general battles can produce great results
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Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.
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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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Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.
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Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.
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In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.
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A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.
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Battles decide everything.
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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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Tactics is the art of using troops in battle strategy is the art of using battles to win the war
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Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.
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The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.
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Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
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No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy
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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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A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.
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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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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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