Only Great And General Battles Can Produce

Everything In War Is Very Simple, But The Simplest Thing Is Difficult.

Boldness Becomes Rarer, The Higher The Rank.

War Is A Conflict Of Great Interests Which Is Settled By Bloodshed, And Only In That Is It Different From Others.

The Deduction Of Effect From Cause Is Often Blocked By Some Insuperable Extrinsic Obstacle: The True Causes May Be Quite Unknown. Nowhere In Life Is This So Common As In War, Where The Facts Are Seldom Fully Known And The Underlying Motives Even Less So.

Many Intelligence Reports In War Are Contradictory; Even More Are False, And Most Are Uncertain.