There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment
Carl von ClausewitzThere is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.
Carl von ClausewitzWar is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.
Carl von ClausewitzIn 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 ClausewitzWhenever armed forces . . . are used, the idea of combat must be present. . . . The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time.
Carl von Clausewitz