Surprise Becomes Effective When We Suddenly Face

Action In War Is Like Movement In A Resistant Element. Just As The Simplest And Most Natural Of Movements, Walking, Cannot Easily Be Performed In Water, So In War, It Is Difficult For Normal Efforts To Achieve Even Moderate Results.

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.

Savage Peoples Are Ruled By Passion, Civilized Peoples By The Mind. The Difference Lies Not In The Respective Natures Of Savagery And Civilization, But In Their Attendant Circumstances, Institutions, And So Forth. The Difference, Therefore, Does Not Operate In Every Sense, But It Does In Most Of Them. Even The Most Civilized Peoples, In Short, Can Be Fired With Passionate Hatred For Each Other.

If You Entrench Yourself Behind Strong Fortifications, You Compel The Enemy Seek A Solution Elsewhere.

Blind Aggressiveness Would Destroy The Attack Itself, Not The Defense.