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. (Carl von Clausewitz)

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.

Carl von Clausewitz

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