Knowledge must become capability.

Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

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

The very nature of interactions is bound to make it unpredictable.

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.