WEATHER.
Still more rarely has the weather any decisive influence, and it is mostly only by fogs that it plays a part.
34.

END AND MEANS IN STRATEGY.
Strategy has in the first instance only the victory, that is, the tactical result, as a means to its object, and ultimately those things which lead directly to peace.

The application of its means to this object is at the same time attended by circumstances which have an influence thereon more or less.
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CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH ATTEND THE APPLICATION OF THE MEANS OF STRATEGY.
These circumstances are country and ground, the former including the territory and inhabitants of the whole theatre of war; next the time of the day, and the time of the year as well; lastly, the weather, particularly any unusual state of the same, severe frost, &c.
36.

THESE FORM NEW MEANS.
By bringing these things into combination with the results of a combat, strategy gives this result--and therefore the combat--a special signification, places before it a particular object.