Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.

Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

So we have had to dispense with the indispensable.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.