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Moltke wrote as follows:
“A clever military leader will succeed in many cases in choosing defensive positions of such an offensive nature from a strategic point of view that the opponent is compelled to attack us in them.”
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In looking through a packet of ancient papers I find some youthful thoughts of my own and some others which evidently I thought very choice.
“Anything said before a lecture muddles it.”
“Anything after weakens it!”
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“There is nothing you can’t have if you want it enough.”
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