If You Want Peace, Understand War.

It Is Thus More Potent, As Well As More Economical, To Disarm The Enemy Than To Attempt His Destruction By Hard Fighting ... A Strategist Should Think In Terms Of Paralysing, Not Of Killing.

For Whoever Habitually Suppresses The Truth In The Interests Of Tact Will Produce A Deformity From The Womb Of His Thought.

The More Closely [the German Army] Converged On [stalingrad], The Narrower Became Their Scope For Tactical Manoeuvre As A Lever In Loosening Resistance. By Contrast, The Narrowing Of The Frontage Made It Easier For The Defender To Switch His Local Reserves To Any Threatened Point On The Defensive Arc.

The Most Effective Indirect Approach Is One That Lures Or Startles The Opponent Into A False Move - So That, As In Ju-jitsu, His Own Effort Is Turned Into The Lever Of His Overthrow.

The Easiest And Quickest Path Into The Esteem Of Traditional Military Authorities Is By The Appeal To The Eye, Rather Than To The Mind. The `polish And Pipeclay' School Is Not Yet Extinct, And It Is Easier For The Mediocre Intelligence To Become An Authority On Buttons, Than On Tactics.