Politics is the womb in which war develops. |
Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference. |
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. |
Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other. |
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy |
The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war... War has a way of masking the stage with scenery crudely daubed with fearsome apparitions. |
The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response. |
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes. |
To secure peace is to prepare for war |
To secure peace is to prepare for war. |
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter. |
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means. |
War is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means. |
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means. |
War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering. |