Carl von Clausewitz Quotes
In war, where imperfect intelligence, the threat of a catastrophe, and the number of accidents are incomparably greater than any other human endeavor, the amount of missed opportunities, so to speak, is therefore bound to be greater.
von Clausewitz, Carl. On War. Translated by Michael Howard and Peter Paret, Princeton University Press, 1984.
He was the first of the modern Western poets and is often referred to as the Father of the Humanities
This was the exact political logical scenario that German socialist Bebel had predicted a few years earlier--{642075}. “Hectacomb” was an ancient Greek term referring to the public sacrifice of the blood of 100 oxen. It developed a more generalized meaning referring to making a very large human sacrifice of life for a national purpose.
Carl Philipp Gottfried (or Gottlieb) von Clausewitz was a Prussian general and military theorist who stressed the "moral" (meaning, in modern terms, psychological) and political aspects of war. His most notable work, Vom Kriege transl. On War, was unfinished at his death.
