Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it…

Carl von Clausewitz
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Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and it is still closer to politics, which in turn may be considered as a kind of commerce on a larger scale. ✨ Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). On War, p.149, Princeton University Press
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