Action Quote by Karl Von Clausewitz

Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in…

— Carl von Clausewitz

The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere twilight - like the…

— Carl von Clausewitz

The general unreliability of all information presents a special problem in war: all action takes place, so to speak, in the twilight, which, like…

— Carl von Clausewitz

It's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war.

— Hillary Clinton

War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or…

— Carl von Clausewitz

“we cannot predict with certainty the pattern of the war for which we prepare ourselves. We cannot, with reasonable certainty, forecast the time, the…

— J.C. Wylie

After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an…

— H. R. McMaster

In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data…

— Ferdinand Foch

War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.

— George Meade

“we cannot predict with certainty the pattern of the war for which we prepare ourselves.”

— J.C. Wylie

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

War is an option of difficulties.

— James Wolfe