Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war. ... Countless minor incidents - the kind you can never really foresee - combine to lower the general level of performance, so that one always falls short of the intended goal.

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

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

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.