...talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice. - Carl von Clausewitz

All thinking is indeed Art. Where the logician draws the line, where the premises stop which are the result of cognition — where judgment begins, there Art begins. But more than this even the perception of the mind is judgment again, and consequently Art; and at last, even the perception by the senses as well.

An immense space lies between a General — that is, one at the head of a whole War, or of a theatre of War — and his Second in Command, for the simple reason that the latter is in more immediate subordination to a superior authority and supervision, consequently is restricted to a more limited sphere of independent thought.

"Von der Goltz in excuse for the action of the late President Kruger in 1899: "The Statesman who, knowing his instrument to be ready, and seeing War inevitable, hesitates to strike first is guilty of a crime against his country.