The best form of defense is attack.

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on him to make. The hardships of the situation must not be merely transient - at least not in appearance. Otherwise, the enemy would not give in, but would wait for things to improve.

Knowledge must become capability.

War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.

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

Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity