In 1793 such a force as no one had any conception of made its appearance. War had again suddenly become an affair of the people, and that of a people numbering thirty millions, every one of whom regarded himself as a citizen of the State... By this participation of the people in the war... a whole Nation with its natural weight came into the scale.

Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.

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

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.

The very nature of interactions is bound to make it unpredictable.

Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.