Ensure That Both Plan And Dispositions Are

If You Wish For Peace, Understand War.

An Army Should Always Be So Distributed That Its Parts Can Aid Each Other And Combine To Produce The Maximum Possible Concentration Of Force At One Place, While The Minimum Force Necessary Is Used Elsewhere To Prepare The Success Of The Concentration.

In The Case Of A State That Is Seeking Not Conquest But The Maintenance Of Its Security, The Aim Is Fulfilled If The Threat Is Removed - If The Enemy Is Led To Abandon His Purpose.

Direct Experience Is Inherently Too Limited To Form An Adequate Foundation Either For Theory Or For Application. At The Best It Produces An Atmosphere That Is Of Value In Drying And Hardening The Structure Of Thought. The Greater Value Of Indirect Experience Lies In Its Greater Variety And Extent. History Is Universal Experience, The Experience Not Of Another, But Of Many Others Under Manifold Conditions.

To Ensure Attaining An Objective, One Should Have Alternate Objectives. An Attack That Converges On One Point Should Threaten, And Be Able To Diverge Against Another. Only By This Flexibility Of Aim Can Strategy Be Attuned To The Uncertainty Of War.