When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.

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.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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

A plan of campaign should anticipate everything which the enemy can do, and contain within itself the means of thwarting him.

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.