War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds; it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst.

Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.