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The best strategy is always to be very strong.
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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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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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
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Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities and it is still closer to politics, which in turn may be considered as a kind of commerce on a larger scale.
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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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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
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War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.
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Knowledge must become capability.
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Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
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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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War is the province of danger.
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Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.
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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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Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.
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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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Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.
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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 nothing but a duel on a larger scale.
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Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
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Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.
Carl von Clausewitz
Politics is the womb in which war develops.
Carl von Clausewitz
