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- Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
- The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.
- The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly…
- If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on…
- In war, more than anywhere else in the world, things happen differently from what we had expected, and look differently when near from what they…
- Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.
- Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity
- I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the…
- Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and…
- The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
- Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
- Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is…
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