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From Quotes by Carl von Clausewitz
- The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.
- The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to…
- War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.
- In war, more than anywhere else in the world, things happen differently from what we had expected, and look differently when near from what they…
- 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…
- Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this…
- But the main point is that soldiers, after fighting for some time, are apt to be like burned-out cinders. They have shot off their ammunition,…
- Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is…
- The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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