In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what they did at a distance.

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

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

The best form of defense is attack.

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to the next, but instead succumb to the idea that the capture of certain geographical points or the seizure of undefended provinces are of value in themselves, we are liable to regard them as windfall profits.