The Heart Of France Lies Between Brussels

War Is The Realm Of Uncertainty; Three Quarters Of The Factors On Which Action Is Based Are Wrapped In A Fog Of Greater Or Lesser Uncertainty.

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.

Two Qualities Are Indispensable: First, An Intellect That, Even In The Darkest Hour, Retains Some Glimmerings Of The Inner Light Which Leads To Truth; And Second, The Courage To Follow This Faint Light Wherever It May Lead.

The More Physical The Activity, The Less The Difficulties Will Be. The More The Activity Becomes Intellectual And Turns Into Motives Which Exercise A Determining Influence On The Commander's Will, The More The Difficulties Will Increase.