Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the militar….
Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out. Niether side is glorious. On either side they're just fri….
Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there..
Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the….
Only the dead will know the end of the war..
In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell..
The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to the mind. The `polish a….
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 ….
An army should always be so distributed that its parts can aid each other and combine to produce the maximum possible concentration of force at one p….
To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge….
If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistanc….
The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such….
The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned….
The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaus….
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….
For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no lon….
The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach..
With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive..
In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has no….
This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforce….
The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs have sha….