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.

Nothing is more rash or more opposed to the principles of war than a flank march in presence of an army in position, especially when that army occupies heights at the foot of which you must defile.

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.

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 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.

War is ninety percent information.