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.

The art of war consists in being always able, even with an inferior army, to have stronger forces than the enemy at the point of attack or the point which is attacked.

War is ninety percent information.

The issue of a battle is the result of an instant, of a thought. There is the advance, with its various combinations, the battle is joined, the struggle goes on a certain time, the decisive moment presents itself, a spark of genius discloses it, and the smallest body of reserves accomplish victory.

It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.

The art of war consists in bringing to bear with an inferior army a superiority of force at the point at which one attacks or is attacked.