Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war.
Karl von Clausewitz
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not infrequently - like the effect of a fog or moonshine - gives to things exagg
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All 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.
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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 form their purposes.
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Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
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War is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means.
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The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war.. War has a way of masking the stage with scenery crudely daubed with fearsome apparitions.
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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 not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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War is the province of danger.
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