The Invention Of Gunpowder And The Constant

Close Combat, Man To Man, Is Plainly To Be Regarded As The Real Basis Of Combat.

Battles Decide Everything.

Knowledge Must Become Capability.

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.

To Secure Peace Is To Prepare For War.