Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in wat… - Carl von Clausewitz

We maintain, on the contrary, that war is simply a continuation of political intercourse, with the addition of other means. We deliberately use the phrase “with the addition of other means” because we also want to make it clear that war in itself does not suspend political intercourse or change it into something entirely different. In essentials that intercourse continues, irrespective of the means it employs.

The talent of the strategist is to identify the decisive point and to concentrate everything on it, removing forces from secondary fronts and ignoring lesser objectives.

There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment