Dans les deux cas, l’empereur Napoléon attaqua avec son aile droite en cherchant à résister avec l’aile gauche. L'archiduc Charlesdfit exactement la … - Carl von Clausewitz

The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.

The errors which proceed from a spirit of benevolence are the worst.

Thus it has come about that our theoretical and critical literature, instead of giving plain, straightforward arguments in which the author at least always knows what he is saying and the reader what he is reading, is crammed with jargon, ending at obscure crossroads where the author loses its readers. Sometimes these books are even worse: they are just hollow shells. The author himself no longer knows just what he is thinking and soothes himself with obscure ideas which would not satisfy him if expressed in plain speech.