Moltke the Elder

Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke the Elder (1800-1891) was a Prussian field marshal and military strategist. He was one of the most innovative and influential military figures of the nineteenth century.


No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main enemy forces.

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