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

War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Blood is the price of victory

The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

War is politics by other means.