[Ads-l] Clausewitz Quote

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
wrote:

> My second question is, is this the most accurate translation?


FWIW, IMO, the translation ought to be:

"War is nothing other than the continuation of _policy_ by other means."

But, needless to say, I'm neither a trained translator nor a native-speaker
of German.

"YMMV," to coin a phrase.
-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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