Nothing is more important in war than unity in command. When, therefore, you are carrying on hostilities against a single power only, you should have but one army acting on one line and led by one commander.

Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.

My life has been largely spent in affairs that required organization. But organization itself, necessary as it is, is never sufficient to win a battle.

Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter, and consequently less inhuman.