A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.

Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.

By 'intelligence' we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country - the basis, in short, of our own plans and operations.

Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.

Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.