War is merely a continuation of politics.

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

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.