War Should Never Be Thought Of As

Battles Decide Everything.

War Is Politics By Other Means.

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.

Strength Of Character Does Not Consist Solely In Having Powerful Feelings, But In Maintaining One's Balance In Spite Of Them.

All Action Takes Place, So To Speak, In A Kind Of Twilight, Which Like A Fog Or Moonlight, Often Tends To Make Things Seem Grotesque And Larger Than They Really Are.