Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

War is the province of danger.

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 nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.