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 Chapter 1

The Nature of War "Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is dfficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war."1 —Carl von Clausewitz

"In war the chief incalculable is the human will."2 —B. H. Liddell Hart

"Positions are seldom lost because they have been destroyed, but almost invariably because the leader has decided in his own mind that the position cannot be held."3 —A. A. Vandegrift