 | Carl von Clausewitz - 1908 - 388 pages
...England are not_even]yet free.— En. the moral quantities are already reduced to a very small number. Thus, then, in Strategy everything is very simple,...a thousand times by a thousand varying influences, requires, besides great strength of character, great clearness and steadiness of mind, and out of a... | |
 | Carl von Clausewitz - 1918 - 384 pages
...England are not even yet free. — ED. the moral quantities are already reduced to a very small number. Thus, then, in Strategy everything is very simple,...a thousand times by a thousand varying influences, requires, besides great strength of character, great clearness and steadiness of mind, and out of a... | |
 | Sam Charles Sarkesian, John Allen Williams - 1990 - 334 pages
...Third World. One of the most relevant and intriguing Clausewitzian observations in this regard is that in "strategy everything is very simple, but not on that account very easy." 1 On the one hand, there is a direct and clear link between policy and strategy, but on the other,... | |
 | Carl von Clausewitz, Joseph I. Greene - 2003 - 164 pages
...acts both great and small in War, the moral quantities are already reduced to a very small number. Thus, then, in Strategy everything is very simple,...a thousand times by a thousand varying influences, requires, besides great strength of character, great clearness and steadiness of mind, and out of a... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...lead to the final decision. Strategy can therefore never take its hand from the work for a moment. In Strategy everything is very simple, but not on that account very easy. Frederick the Great's campaign of 1760 is celebrated for its fine marches and manoeuvres: a perfect... | |
 | Quarterman Lee, Brad Snyder - 2006 - 170 pages
...all strategic thinking Yet, in any endeavor, it is one of the most difficult attributes to achieve. Thus, then, in strategy everything is very simple, but not on that account very easy. —Carl von Clauswitz One reason for an emphasis on simple processes comes from systems theory and... | |
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... is to be done than on the form of execution. Where the latter is the principal question, as in the single acts both great and small in War, the moral quantities are already reduced to a very small number. Thus, then, in Strategy everything is very... 