The Art Of War In Its Highest

Intelligence Alone Is Not Courage, We Often See That The Most Intelligent People Are Irresolute. Since In The Rush Of Events A Man Is Governed By Feelings Rather Than By Thought, The Intellect Needs To Arouse The Quality Of Courage, Which Then Supports And Sustains It In Action.

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.

Rather Than Comparing [war] To Art We Could More Accurately Compare It To Commerce, Which Is Also A Conflict Of Human Interests And Activities; And It Is Still Closer To Politics, Which In Turn May Be Considered As A Kind Of Commerce On A Larger Scale.

Knowledge In War Is Very Simple, Being Concerned With So Few Subjects, And Only With Their Final Results At That. But This Does Not Make Its Application Easy.

Boldness Becomes Rarer, The Higher The Rank.