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Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz byl pruský generál a válečný teoretik. Je nejlépe známý svou knihou O válce, kterou po jeho smrti vydala jeho manželka. Byl zastáncem termínu "vojenské umění" místo "vojenské vědy" a analyzoval útoky a obranu, přičemž tvrdil, že obrana je efektivnějším způsobem válečných aktivit. Je mu připisováno, že válka je pouze pokračování politiky jinými prostředky a pojmu "válečná mlha".

Zemřel na choleru v roce 1831 a byl původně pohřben na vojenském hřbitově ve Vratislavi. V roce 1971 bylo na žádost východoněmecké vlády jeho ostatky přeneseny do jeho rodného města.

✵ 1. červen 1780 – 16. listopad 1831   •   Další jména Carl Philipp Gotfried Von Clausewitz, Карл Филипп Готтлиб фон Клаузевиц, Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz
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„Válka je pokračováním politiky s použitím jiných prostředků.“

Carl von Clausewitz kniha O válce

Originál: (de) Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln.
Varianta: Válka je jen pokračování diplomacie jinými prostředky.
Zdroj: Clausewitz, Carl von, O válce, Zbyněk Sekal, Bonus A, Brno, 1996, 2, 749, 80-85914-27-1, Původní název „Vom Kriege“. I.1.24

„K dosažení vítězství shromáždíme jednotky v centru vší síly a moci, v těžišti, nepřítele.“

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„Nepřítelem dobrého plánu je sen o dokonalém plánu.“

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„I když náš intelekt vždy touží po jasnosti a jistotě, naše povaha často považuje nejistotu za fascinující.“

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„Válka je oblast nejistoty; tři čtvrtiny toho, na čem se zakládá činnost ve válce, leží v mlze větší nebo menší nejistoty.“

Carl von Clausewitz kniha O válce

Zdroj: CLAUSEWITZ, Carl von. O válce: dílo z pozůstalosti generála Carl von Clausewitze. Praha: Naše vojsko, 1959, str. 51.

„Válka je vždy zahalena v mlze.“

Carl von Clausewitz

Zdroj: neviditelnypes https://neviditelnypes.lidovky.cz/zahranici/krymsky-most-to-byla-supka.A221009_184828_p_zahranici_nef [cit. 2022-10-11]

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“There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment”

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“To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power and movement. The enemy’s "center of gravity”

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“Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.”

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On War (1832), Book 1

“Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat the enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war.”

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Zdroj: On War (1832), Book 1, Chapter 1, Section 3, Paragraph 1.
Kontext: Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat the enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.

“War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.”

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Varianta: War Is Merely the Continuation of Policy by Other Means
Zdroj: On War (1832), Book 1, Chapter 1, Section 24, in the Princeton University Press translation (1976)
Variant translation: War is merely the continuation of politics by other means.
Kontext: War Is Merely the Continuation of Policy by Other Means
We see, therefore, that war is not merely an act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse carried on with other means. What remains peculiar to war is simply the peculiar nature of its means.

“There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.”

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Varianta: There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.
Zdroj: On War (1832), Book 2

“Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them.”

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Zdroj: On War (1832), Book 1, Chapter 3.
Kontext: Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.

“Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.”

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On War (1832), Book 1

“No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.”

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“The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.”

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Zdroj: On War (1832), Book 6, Ch. 2

“If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.”

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“All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.”

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On War (1832), Book 5

“Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.”

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On War (1832), Book 3

“War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.”

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Zdroj: On War (1832), Book 1, Chapter 1, Section 3, Paragraph 1.
Kontext: Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat the enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.

“…as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.”

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On War (1832), Book 3

“If a segment of one's force is located where it is not sufficiently busy with the enemy, or if the troops are on the march - that is, idle - while the enemy is fighting, then these forces are being managed uneconomically. In this sense they are being wasted, which is even worse than using them inappropriately.”

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On War (1832), Book 3

“…it is better to go on striking in the same direction than to move one's forces this way and that.”

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On War (1832), Book 2

“The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.”

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On War (1832), Book 1

“Our discussion has shown that while in war many different roads can lead to the goal, to the attainment of the political object, fighting is the only possible means.”

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On War (1832), Book 1

“…in war, the advantages and disadvantages of a single action could only be determined by the final balance.”

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On War (1832), Book 3

“If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to the next, but instead succumb to the idea that the capture of certain geographical points or the seizure of undefended provinces are of value in themselves, we are liable to regard them as windfall profits. In so doing, and in ignoring the fact that they are links in a continuous chain of events, we also ignore the possibility that their possession may later lead to definite disadvantages.”

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On War (1832), Book 3

“Essentally combat is an expression of hostile feelings. But in the large-scale combat that we call war hostile feelings often have become merely hostile intentions. At any rate, there are usually no hostile feelings between individuals. Yet such emotions can never be completely absent from war. Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves as a more or less substitute for the hatred between individuals. Even when there is no natural hatred and no animosity to start with, the fighting itself will stir up hostile feelings: violence committed on superior orders will stir up the desire for revenge and retaliation against the perpetrator rather than against the powers that ordered the action. It is only human (or animal, if you like), but it is a fact.”

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On War (1832), Book 2

“…the role of determination is to limit the agonies of doubt and the perils of hesitation when the motives for action are inadequate.”

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On War (1832), Book 1

“… only a fraction of book learning will seep into practical life anyhow; and the more foolish the theory, the less of it.”

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Zdroj: On War (1832), Book 6, Chapter 17.

“Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.”

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On War (1832), Book 3

“If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, 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.”

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On War (1832), Book 1

“…the side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain.”

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On War (1832), Book 1

“Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.”

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On War (1832), Book 2

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