The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The second rule is to concentrate our power as much as possible against that section where the chief blows are to be delivered and to incur disadvantages elsewhere, so that our chances of success may increase at the decisive point. The third rule is never to waste time. Finally, the fourth rule is to follow up our successes with the utmost energy. Only pursuit of the beaten enemy gives the fruits of victory.

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.

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'

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.