Insurgent measures

... the Spaniards by their stubborn resistance have shown what the general arming of a nation and insurgent measures on a great scale can effect, in spite of weakness and porousness of individual parts ...

Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831)

from On War (published posthumously in 1832)

trans. J. J. Graham (1874)


Thanks to Project Gutenberg for the text.


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