Air Forces Offered The Possibility Of Striking

As Has Happened So Often In History, Victory Had Bred A Complacency And Fostered An Orthodoxy Which Led To Defeat In The Next War.

The Military Weapon Is But One Of The Means That Serve The Purposes Of War: One Out Of The Assortment Which Grand Strategy Can Employ.

The Blurring Of The Line Between Policy And Strategy] Encouraged Soldiers To Make The Preposterous Claim That Policy Should Be Subservient To Their Conduct Of Operations, And (especially In Democratic Countries) It Drew The Statesman On To Overstep The Definite Border Of His Sphere And Interfere With His Military Employees In The Actual Use Of Their Tools.

[the] Aim Is Not So Much To Seek Battle As To Seek A Strategic Situation So Advantageous That If It Does Not Of Itself Produce The Decision, Its Continuation By A Battle Is Sure To Achieve This. In Other Words, Dislocation Is The Aim Of Strategy.

The Most Dangerous Error Is Failure To Recognize Our Own Tendency To Error.