In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what they did at a distance.
Carl von ClausewitzEvery combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.
Carl von ClausewitzClose combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.
Carl von Clausewitz