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.

War is ninety percent information.

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.

War is composed of nothing but accidents...there is but one favorable moment, the great art is to seize it.

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.