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.

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

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.

There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment

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

There is only one decisive victory: the last.