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No military officer would dispute the efficacy of simplicity in every area of military endeavour — operations, administration, strategy, tactics, in combat or in staff work. It has been demonstrated and extolled by many of the most successful and perceptive exponents of war over many years.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Napoleon Bonaparte, Memoirs, Vol II, H. Colburn and Co., London, 1823–4, p 2.
Bernard Brodie, ‘The Worth of Principles of War’, Lecture to the US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, March 7 1957.
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Evans, D. (1997). Simplicity. In: War: A Matter of Principles. RUSI Defence Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25956-4_13
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