War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.Karl Von Clausewitz
War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
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War is the province of chance. In no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events.
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Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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Let us not hear of generals who conquer without bloodshed. If a bloody slaughter is a horrible sight, then that is a ground for paying more respect to war but not for making the sword we wear blunter and blunter by degrees from feelings of humanity, until someone steps in with one that is sharp and lops off the arm from our body.
Karl von Clausewitz
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