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"The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response."
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"The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response."
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"The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes."

"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 nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together."

"Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead."

"Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain."
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