If You Wish For Peace,

As Has Happened So Often In History, Victory Had Bred A Complacency And Fostered An Orthodoxy Which Led To Defeat In The Next War.

The Predominance Of Moral Factors In All Military Decisions. On Them Constantly Turns The Issue Of War And Battle. In The History Of War They Form The More Constant Factors, Changing Only In Degree, Whereas The Physical Factors Are Different In Almost Every War And Every Military Situation.

The Most Dangerous Error Is Failure To Recognize Our Own Tendency To Error.

Inflict The Least Possible Permanent Injury, For The Enemy Of To-day Is The Customer Of The Morrow And The Ally Of The Future

This High Proportion Of History's Decisive Campaigns, The Significance Of Which Is Enhanced By The Comparative Rarity Of The Direct Approach, Enforces The Conclusion That The Indirect Is By Far The Most Hopeful And Economic Form Of Strategy.