Contradictory Quote by Carl von Clausewitz

“Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.” Carl von Clausewitz”

— Scott J Roberts

If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war is a…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

— Groucho Marx

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.

— Paul Fussell

Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive.

— Lucille Kallen

Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other…

— Colin Powell

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a…

— Tim O'Brien

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military…

— Ozzy Osbourne

“War is a mass of contradictions and carefully acknowledged truths.”

— Michelle Sagara West

War is based on deception.

— Sun Tzu

All war is based on deception.

— Sun Tzu

The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.

— Henry Rollins