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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."

Karl Von Clausewitz, Prussian Soldier

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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."

Karl Von Clausewitz, Prussian Soldier

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"War is the continuation of politics by other means."

"Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating."

"Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference."

"War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means."

"Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult."

"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."

"It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past."

"War is the province of danger."

"All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are."

"Politics is the womb in which war develops."

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