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It must continually be insisted upon in military history, that general / actions, however decisive, are but the functions of campaigns; and that / campaigns, in their turn, are but the functions of the political energies / of the governments whose armies are engaged.
The object of a campaign is invariably a political object, and all its / military effort is, or should be, subsidiary to that political object.