Carl von Clausewitz
"Je größerer Art die Maßnahmen werden, um so weniger kann man damit überraschen."
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"Je größerer Art die Maßnahmen werden, um so weniger kann man damit überraschen."
"كلما عظمت التدابير، تضاءلت القدرة"
Carl von Clausewitz
Die Kunst des Krieges & Vom Kriege
"Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms."
"لقد ازداد علمنا بالظروف، ولكن ريبنا، بدل أن يتضاءل، لم يزدد إلا تفاقمًا. والسبب في ذلك أننا لا نكتسب خبراتنا دفعة واحدة، بل على مراحل؛ لذا تظل قراراتنا عرضة للهجوم المستمر من تجارب جديدة؛ والعقل، إن جاز التعبير، يجب أن يبقى دائمًا متأهبًا."
Carl von Clausewitz
"Politics is the womb in which war develops."
"السياسة هي الرحم الذي تتخلق فيه الحروب."
Carl von Clausewitz
"Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity."
"لا تنسَ أبدًا أن قائدًا عسكريًا لم يبلغ العظمة قط دون جرأة."
Carl von Clausewitz
"Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination."
"اسعَ إلى غايةٍ عظيمةٍ حاسمةٍ واحدةٍ بقوةٍ وعزيمة."
Carl von Clausewitz
"Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior."
"الشجاعة، قبل كل شيء، هي أولى خصال المحارب."
Carl von Clausewitz
"Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead."
"صفتان لا غنى عنهما: الأولى، عقلٌ يحتفظ، حتى في أحلك الساعات، ببعض ومضات النور الداخلي الذي يهدي إلى الحقيقة؛ والثانية، شجاعةٌ تتبع هذا النور الخافت أينما قاد."
Carl von Clausewitz
"Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating."
Carl von Clausewitz
"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."
Carl von Clausewitz
"War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means."
Carl von Clausewitz
"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."
Carl von Clausewitz
"War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means."
Carl von Clausewitz
"Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain."
Carl von Clausewitz
"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."
Carl von Clausewitz
"We maintain, on the contrary, that war is simply a continuation of political intercourse, with the addition of other means. We deliberately use the phrase “with the addition of other means” because we also want to make it clear that war in itself does not suspend political intercourse or change it into something entirely different. In essentials that intercourse continues, irrespective of the means it employs."
Carl von Clausewitz
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