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A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
War therefore is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
To introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
The worst of all conditions in which a belligerent can find himself is to be utterly defenseless (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
Our discussion has shown that while in war many different roads can lead to the goal, to the attainment of the political object, fighting is the only possible means (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
... It is better to go on striking in the same direction than to move one’s forces this way and that (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
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 (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
... In war, the advantages and disadvantages of a single action could only be determined by the final balance (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
Phillipsburg was the name of one those badly drawn fortresses resembling a fool with his nose too close to the wall (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court martialled (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
... Only a fraction of book learning will seep into practical life anyhow; and the more foolish the theory, the less of it (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
War is a continuation of policy by other means. It is not merely a political act but a real political instrument (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
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 (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
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 (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)
Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy’s strength too high than too low, such is human nature (Carl Von Clausewitz Quotes)