War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

Knowledge must become capability.

War is politics by other means.

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.

There is only one decisive victory: the last.

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

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.