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Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy.
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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Burg bei Magdeburg
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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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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
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There is only one decisive victory: the last.
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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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War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.
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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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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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Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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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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Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
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With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.
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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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Tactics is the art of using troops in battle strategy is the art of using battles to win the war
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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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