My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data of a military problem are but seldom certain; they are never final . Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping.

The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been the case and never will be. One of the great factors on the next war will be aircraft obviously. The potentialities of aircraft attack on a large scale are almost incalculable.

In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.

A beaten general is disgraced forever.

Victory is a thing of the will.

It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.