War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.
Carl von ClausewitzThe majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to give him a false impression of his opponent's strength, and from this arises a new source of indecision.
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 Clausewitz