"Fog of War"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 6/11/07, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Carl von Clausewitz, _On War_, trans. Michael Howard & Peter Paret (Princeton:
> P.U.P., 1984) Bk. 1, ch. iii: "War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the
> factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser
> uncertainty."
[...]
>   There may well be a pre-1984 trans. or ref. that translates "clouds" in Book I
> as "fog," but Clausewitz never quite used the phrase in German.

The first edition of the Howard & Paret translation was published in
1976, actually.

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--Ben Zimmer

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