I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together. β¨ Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). On War, p.75, Princeton University Press
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