If We Read History With An Open

Where Absolute Superiority Is Not Attainable, You Must Produce A Relative One At The Decisive Point By Making Skillful Use Ofwhat You Have.

If We Consider The Actual Basis Of This Information [i.e., Intelligence], How Unreliable And Transient It Is, We Soon Realize That War Is A Flimsy Structure That Can Easily Collapse And Bury Us In Its Ruins. ... Many Intelligence Reports In War Are Contradictory; Even More Are False, And Most Are Uncertain. This Is True Of All Intelligence But Even More So In The Heat Of Battle, Where Such Reports Tend To Contradict And Cancel Each Other Out. In Short, Most Intelligence Is False, And The Effect Of Fear Is To Multiply Lies And Inaccuracies.

Although Our Intellect Always Longs For Clarity And Certainty, Our Nature Often Finds Uncertainty Fascinating.

Four Elements Make Up The Climate Of War: Danger, Exertion, Uncertainty And Chance.

Blind Aggressiveness Would Destroy The Attack Itself, Not The Defense.