Karl Von Clausewitz - About war - 161213

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

-Karl Von Clausewitz

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

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"War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering."

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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."

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"War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter."

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"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."

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"War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means."

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

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