Timidity Is The Root Of

Only The Element Of Chance Is Needed To Make War A Gamble, And That Element Is Never Absent.

Where Execution Is Dominant, As It Is In The Individual Events Of A War Whether Great Or Small, Then Intellectual Factors Are Reduced To A Minimum.

War Is...a Trinity Of Violence, Chance, And Reason.

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 Water, So In War, It Is Difficult For Normal Efforts To Achieve Even Moderate Results.

Everything In War Is Very Simple, But The Simplest Thing Is Difficult.