...in war, the advantages and disadvantages of a single action could only be determined by the final balance.

If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to the next, but instead …

The moral elements are among the most important in war. They constitute the spirit that permeates war as a whole, and at an early stage they establish a close …

Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

One cannot think that blind bravery gives victory over the enemy.

Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.