War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
Carl von ClausewitzNo other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.
Carl von ClausewitzThe bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.
Carl von ClausewitzAll action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
Carl von Clausewitz