The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly than a complex plan can be adapted to it. By the time you have adapted, the target has changed.

The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly than a complex plan can be adapted to it. By the time you have adapted, the target has changed.

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

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected.

No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy

The side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain.