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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy - Karl Clausewitz Quotes

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy

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Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. - Karl Clausewitz Quotes

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

Karl Clausewitz

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. - Karl Clausewitz Quotes

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.

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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. - Karl Clausewitz Quotes

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

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If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to the truth; and second, the courage to follow this light wherever it may lead. - Karl Clausewitz Quotes

If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to the truth; and second, the courage to follow this light wherever it may lead.

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Mind

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 their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other. - Karl Clausewitz Quotes

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 their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.

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Civilization Lies And Lying

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity. - Karl Clausewitz Quotes

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

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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. - Karl Clausewitz Quotes

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.

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Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference. - Karl Clausewitz Quotes

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

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Man

Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not infrequently - like the effect of a fog or moonshine - gives to things exagg - Karl Clausewitz Quotes

Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not infrequently - like the effect of a fog or moonshine - gives to things exagg

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