Accurate Quote by Carl von Clausewitz

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper.

— Carl von Clausewitz

In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what…

— Carl von Clausewitz

In war, more than anywhere else in the world, things happen differently from what we had expected, and look differently when near from what…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that…

— Carl von Clausewitz

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings,…

— George Grosz

Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is…

— Karl Von Clausewitz

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.

— Tim O'Brien

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

— Winston Churchill

Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

— George S. Patton

Wars are hard to look at head-on.

— Jesse Armstrong

As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have…

— Adam Hochschild