War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with o…

Carl von Clausewitz
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means. ✨ Carl von Clausewitz (1943). On war: Translated from the German by O.J. Matthijs Jolles
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