In Tactics, Action Is The Governing Rule

My Center Is Giving Way, My Right Is In Retreat; Situation Excellent. I Shall Attack.

To Inform, And, Therefore To Reconnoitre , This Is The First And Constant Duty Of The Advanced Guard.

One Is Defeated Only When One Accepts Defeat.

Don't Drown Yourself In Details. Look At The Whole.

This Absence Of Similarity Among Military Questions Naturally Brings Out The Inability Of Memory To Solve Them; Also The Sterility Of Invariable Forms, Such As Figures, Geometrical Drawings ( épures ), Plans ( Schémas ), Etc. One Only Right Solution Imposes Itself:;: Namely, The Application, Varying According To Circumstances, Of Fixed Principles.