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The best form of defense is at...

The best form of defense is attack.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

War is a conflict of great int...

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

In war the will is directed at...

In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

There is only one decisive vic...

There is only one decisive victory: the last.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

A certain grasp of military af...

A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

The first, the supreme, the mo...

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 war on which they are embarking.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

Pursue one great decisive aim ...

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war. Only great and general battles can produce great results. Blood is the price of victory.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

Be audacious and cunning in yo...

Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

Boldness governed by superior ...

Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

Modern wars are seldom fought ...

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

Great things alone can make a ...

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

What do we mean by the defeat ...

What do we mean by the defeat of the enemy? Simply the destruction of his forces, whether by death, injury, or any other means-either completely or enough to make him stop fighting. . . . The complete or partial destruction of the enemy must be regarded as the sole object of all engagements. . . . Direct annihilation of the enemy's forces must always be the dominant consideration.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

Whenever armed forces . . . ar...

Whenever armed forces . . . are used, the idea of combat must be present. . . . The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

Given the same amount of intel...

Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

If we do not learn to regard a...

If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to the next, but instead succumb to the idea that the capture of certain geographical points or the seizure of undefended provinces are of value in themselves, we are liable to regard them as windfall profits.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

No campaign plan survives firs...

No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

Timidity is the root of pruden...

Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

A conqueror is always a lover ...

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

I shall proceed from the simpl...

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.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

Rather than comparing [war] to...

Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and it is still closer to politics, which in turn may be considered as a kind of commerce on a larger scale.

Carl Clausewitz 187 quotes

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