 If you want to overcome your enemy you must match your effort against his power of resistance, which can be expressed as the product of two inseparable factors, viz. The total means at his disposal and the strength of his will.  The Art and Practice of Military Strategy - Sida 57redigerad av - 1984 - 883 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Harry G. Summers - 1995 - 280 sidor
...manpower with the intangible moral factors of leadership, battlefield bravery, and political will. "If you want to overcome your enemy you must match your effort against his power of resistance," Clausewitz said, "which can be expressed as the product of two inseparable factors, viz. the total... | |
 | Tony Fang - 1999 - 364 sidor
...The worst of all conditions in which a belligerent can find himself is to be utterly defenseless. ... If you want to overcome your enemy, you must match...means at his disposal and the strength of his will, (P- 77) The best strategy is always to be veiy strong; first in general, and then at the decisive point,... | |
 | Theodore Ropp - 2000 - 430 sidor
...his powers of resistance . . . expressed as a product of two inseparable factors: the extent of the means at his disposal and the strength of his will. The extent of the means at his disposal would be capable of estimation, as it rests (though not entirely) on figures, but the strength of the... | |
 | Richard Ned Lebow - 2003 - 428 sidor
...war.57 To overcome an adversary you must "match your effort against his power of resistance, and this can be expressed as the product of two inseparable...means at his disposal and the strength of his will." Means encompass forces and their equipment and can be measured. Strength of will is an intangible factor,... | |
 | Williamson Murray, Richard Hart Sinnreich - 2006 - 266 sidor
...will. "59 Further on, Clausewitz warns of the difficulty in assessing the enemy's strength accurately. If you want to overcome your enemy you must match...of two inseparable factors, viz. the total means at bis disposal and the strength of his will. The extent of the means at his disposal is a matter - though... | |
 | Beate Jahn - 2006 - 290 sidor
...tendency toward the extreme. In being an act of force with no logical limit war dictates the maxim 'if you want to overcome your enemy you must match your effort against his power of resistance'.33 Such a dialectical conception of war must necessarily lead to a strategy of extremes.... | |
 | 148 sidor
...personally. Mr. PENCE. I know. [Laughter.] I meant academically familiar, Mr. Chairman. As you know he wrote, "If you want to overcome your enemy, you must match...expressed as the product of two inseparable factors: The total means at his disposal and the strength of his will." American might is unsurpassed. That... | |
 | 2002 - 409 sidor
...action of a living force upon a lifeless mass, . . . but always the collision of two living forces. ... if you want to overcome your enemy, you must match your effort against his powers of resistance, which can be expressed as the product of two inseparable factors, viz. the total... | |
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