All War Presupposes Human Weakness And Seeks

Kind-hearted People Might Of Course Think There Was Some Ingenious Way To Disarm Or Defeat An Enemy Without Too Much Bloodshed, And Might Imagine This Is The True Goal Of The Art Of War. Pleasant As It Sounds; It Is A Fallacy That Must Be Exposed: War Is Such A Dangerous Business That The Mistakes Which Come From Kindness Are The Very Worst.

No Campaign Plan Survives First Contact With The Enemy

Whoever Does Great Things With Small Means Has Successfully Reached The Goal.

No Other Human Activity Is So Continuously Or Universally Bound Up With Chance. And Through The Element Of Chance, Guesswork And Luck Come To Play A Great Part In War.

It Is Even Better To Act Quickly And Err Than To Hesitate Until The Time Of Action Is Past.