War Is...a Trinity Of Violence, Chance, And

The Enemy Of A Good Plan Is The Dream Of A Perfect Plan.

To Discover How Much Of Our Resources Must Be Mobilized For War, We Must First Examine Our Political Aim And That Of The Enemy. We Must Gauge The Strength And Situation Of The Opposite State. We Must Gauge The Character And Abilities Of Its Government And People And Do The Same In Regard To Our Own. Finally, We Must Evaluate The Political Sympathies Of Other States And The Effect The War May Have On Them.

War Is Nothing But A Continuation Of Politics With The Admixture Of Other Means.

Every Age Has Its Own Kind Of War, Its Own Limiting Conditions And Its Own Peculiar Preconceptions.

Boldness Becomes Rarer, The Higher The Rank.