The best form of defense is attack.

If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on him to make. The hardships of the situation must not be merely transient - at least not in appearance. Otherwise, the enemy would not give in, but would wait for things to improve.

The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of war on which they are embarking.

The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

Blood is the price of victory

Only great and general battles can produce great results

In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.

War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events.