"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with…" — Carl von Clausewitz
"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy."
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Carl von Clausewitz
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97 Quotes by Carl von Clausewitz
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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
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Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light…
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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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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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
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Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
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Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends…
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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will,…
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered…
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It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
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Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
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Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.
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No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made…
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The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those…
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.
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