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Of All The Passions That Inspire A Man In A Battle, None, We Have To Admit, Is So Powerful And So Constant As The Longing For Honor And Reknown.

The Difficulty Of Accurate Recognition Constitutes One Of The Most Serious Sources Of Friction In War, By Making Things Appear Entirely Different From What One Had Expected.

Knowledge In War Is Very Simple, Being Concerned With So Few Subjects, And Only With Their Final Results At That. But This Does Not Make Its Application Easy.

Der Krieg Ist Nichts Als Eine Fortsetzung Des Politischen Verkehrs Mit Einmischung Anderer Mittel. War Is Merely The Continuation Of Policy With The Admixture Of Other Means.

A General In Time Of War Is Constantly Bombarded By Reports Both True And False; By Errors Arising From Fear Or Negligence Or Hastiness; By Disobedience Born Of Right Or Wrong Interpretations, Of Ill Will; Of A Proper Or Mistaken Sense Of Duty; Of Laziness; Or Of Exhaustion; And By Accident That Nobody Could Have Foreseen. In Short, He Is Exposed To Countless Impressions, Most Of Them Disturbing, Few Of Them Encouraging. ... If A Man Were To Yield To These Pressures, He Would Never Complete An Operation.