“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 form their purposes.
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.
Politics is the womb in which war develops.
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
