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Updated: May 8, 2025

And so it proved, for the wars of the middle nineteenth century did in fact revert to the pre-Napoleonic type. In short, Clausewitz's difficulty in adopting his abstract theory as a working rule was that his practical mind could not forget that war had not begun with the Revolutionary era, nor was it likely to end with it.

Sir Julian Stafford Corbett - Some Principles of Maritime Strategy