If You Wish For Peace, Understand War.

...regrettable As It May Seem To The Idealist, The Experience Of History Provides Little Warrant For The Belief That Real Progress, And The Freedom That Makes Progress Possible, Lies In Unification. For Where Unification Has Been Able To Establish Unity Of Ideas It Has Usually Ended In Uniformity, Paralysing The Growth Of New Ideas. And Where The Unification Has Merely Brought About An Artificial Or Imposed Unity, Its Irksomeness Has Led Through Discord To Disruption.

Air Power Is, Above All, A Psychological Weapon - And Only Short-sighted Soldiers, Too Battle-minded, Underrate The Importance Of Psychological Factors In War.

A Complacent Satisfaction With Present Knowledge Is The Chief Bar To The Pursuit Of Knowledge.

Ensure That Both Plan And Dispositions Are Flexible, Adaptable To Circumstances. Your Plan Should Foresee And Provide For A Next Step In Case Of Success Or Failure.

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.