The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in powe….

An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war is ever tending to revert to it….

As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future..

The War of the Roses in England and the Civil War in America were both intestinal conflicts arising out of similar ideas. In the first the clash was ….

Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline ….

The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concret….

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body..

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane..

Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground his teeth and murmur….

In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander….

To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does v….

It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely tr….

What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The cause….

Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war..

Artillery conquers and infantry occupies..