War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means..

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine thi….

Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero..

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

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale..

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering..

Whenever armed forces . . . are used, the idea of combat must be present. . . . The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained….

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….

Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and i….

Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity.

If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to the next, bu….

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend w….

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of b….

There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war..

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination..

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than ….

The deduction of effect from cause is often blocked by some insuperable extrinsic obstacle: the true causes may be quite unknown. Nowhere in life is ….

Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its applicat….

The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more qu….

To secure peace is to prepare for war..

Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent..