The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which exercise a determining influence on the commander's will, the more the difficulties will increase.

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

Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.

War is politics by other means.

The heart of France lies between Brussels and Paris.

No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.