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and courage to hold to his strategy, they would win out.

就肯定会取得最终的胜利
So he believed and so did

他对此坚信不疑
his contemporary Thucydides.

同时代的修昔底德也同样深信不疑
More than two millennia later,

两千多年后
Clausewitz saw war through very different eyes.

克劳塞维茨从截然不同的角度分析了这场战争
I quote him, "war is more than a true chameleon that

引用他的话说就是战争不仅仅是
slightly shapes its characteristics to the given case.

只随特定环境的改变而稍作调整的变色龙
As a total phenomenon, its dominant tendencies always

作为一个总的现象它总是倾向于
make war a paradoxical trinity composed of

使战争成为一个由原始的
primordial violence, hatred, and enmity,

暴力憎恶和仇恨组成的矛盾三位体
which are to be regarded as a blind natural force.

这三者被看作是盲目的自然力量
Of the play of chance and probability,

在这场机会与机率的博弈中