To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge….

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out..

Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by giving thoug….

In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than to attempt the overthrow ….

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future..

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error..

It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of danegeld stimulates a de….

With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive..

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success..

If you wish for peace, understand war..

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will..

In war, the chief incalculable is the human will..

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought..

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters..

[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its cont….

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge..

It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, s….

If we clear the air of the fog of catchwords which surround the conduct of war, and grasp that in the human will lies the source and mainspring of al….

In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance b….

In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere ….

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive dr….