Moral Factors in War

From On War by Carl von Clausewitz
Moral factors—skill of commander, virtue of army, national feeling—are among the most important in war and cannot be reduced to material calculation.
Book 3, Chapter 3

Moral factors: 'one might say that the physical seem little more than the wooden hilt, while the moral factors are the precious metal, the real weapon.'

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Book 3, Chapter 4

The principal moral elements.

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Book 3, Chapter 5

Military virtues of the army.

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