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Quotation from On War by Carl von Clausewitz
“It has certainly a grammar of its own, but its logic is not peculiar to itself”
On War, Book VIII, Ch. 6B, trans. J. J. Graham (1873), rev. F. N. Maude (1908)
War as a kind of language for political thought; the military conducts it but policy supplies its sense.
Citation: "It has certainly a grammar of its own, but its logic is not peculiar to itself" — Carl von Clausewitz, On War, Book VIII, Ch. 6B, trans. J. J. Graham (1873), rev. F. N. Maude (1908). (id on-war-q12)
Portrait: Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), Wilhelm Wach, Public domain.
