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• ‟ War is the continuation of politics by other means.

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• ‟ Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

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• ‟ The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

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• ‟ To secure peace is to prepare for war.

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• ‟ Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

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• ‟ Politics is the womb in which war develops.

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• ‟ War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

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• ‟ 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 regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

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• ‟ War is the province of danger.

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• ‟ War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

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• ‟ I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

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• ‟ War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

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