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The very nature of interactions is bound to make it unpredictable.
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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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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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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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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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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War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.
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War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
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The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.
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Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.
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Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.
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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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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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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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There is only one decisive victory: the last.
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War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.
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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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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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To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.
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There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.
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