If You Wish For Peace, Understand War.

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.

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

The Easiest And Quickest Path Into The Esteem Of Traditional Military Authorities Is By The Appeal To The Eye, Rather Than To The Mind. The `polish And Pipeclay' School Is Not Yet Extinct, And It Is Easier For The Mediocre Intelligence To Become An Authority On Buttons, Than On Tactics.

The Only Thing Harder Than Getting A New Idea Into The Military Mind Is To Get An Old One Out.

Direct Pressure Always Tends To Harden And Consolidate The Resistance Of An Opponent.