Don't Drown Yourself In Details.

One Does Simply What One Can In Order To Apply What One Knows .

This Absence Of Similarity Among Military Questions Naturally Brings Out The Inability Of Memory To Solve Them; Also The Sterility Of Invariable Forms, Such As Figures, Geometrical Drawings ( épures ), Plans ( Schémas ), Etc. One Only Right Solution Imposes Itself:;: Namely, The Application, Varying According To Circumstances, Of Fixed Principles.

Victory Is A Thing Of The Will.

A Beaten General Is Disgraced Forever.

In Tactics, Action Is The Governing Rule Of War.