Given The Same Amount Of Intelligence

From On War, this observation reflects Clausewitz's psychological analysis of military command. He argues that in the face of uncertainty and danger, timidity masquerades as prudence — commanders who hesitate, who wait for perfect information, inflict more harm on their cause than bold ones who sometimes overreach. Clausewitz believed that courage was not the absence of doubt but the will to act through it, and he consistently placed moral and psychological factors above purely technical ones in his theory of war.