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“ ”Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.
About Carl von Clausewitz
Carl von Clausewitz (1 June 1780 – 16 November 1831) was a Prussian general and influential military theorist. He is most famous for his military treatise Vom Kriege, translated into English as On War.
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Additional quotes by Carl von Clausewitz
If we then ask what sort of mind is likeliest to display the qualities of military genius, experience and observation will both tell us that it is the inquiring rather than the creative mind, the comprehensive rather than the specialized approach, the calm rather than the excitable head to which in war we would choose to entrust...
No one starts a war — or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so — without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.
The aggressor is always peace-loving (as Bonaparte always claimed to be); he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.