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Most Quotes by Carl von Clausewitz
- Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
- We must, therefore, be confident that the general measures we have adopted will produce the results we expect. most important in this connection is the…
- After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready…
- The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has…
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