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Tactics is the theory of the use of military forces in combat. Strategy is the theory of the use of combats for the object of war.
- Carl von Clausewitz, On War
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War is an instrument of policy; it must necessarily bear its character, it must measure with its scale: the conduct of war, in its great features, is therefore policy itself, which takes up the sword instead of the pen, but does not on that account cease to think according to its own laws.
- Carl von Clausewitz, On War
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Therefore I say: know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril.
When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal.
If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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…no plan of operation can extend with any prospect of certainty, beyond the first clash with the hostile main force. Only a layman can pretend to trace throughout the course of a campaign the prosecution of a rigid plan, arranged beforehand in all its details and adhered to to the last. All successive acts of war are therefore not pre-mediated executions but spontaneous acts guided by military tact.
- Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke, "the Elder"
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Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war and then sink to win
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities.... It is best to win without fighting
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponents fate
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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