War Is Regarded As Nothing

[...] To Introduce Into The Philosophy Of War Itself A Principle Of Moderation Would Be An Absurdity

Four Elements Make Up The Climate Of War: Danger, Exertion, Uncertainty And Chance.

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.

This Tremendous Friction Which Cannot, As In Mechanics, Be Reduced To A Few Points, Is Everywhere In Contact With Chance, And Brings About Effects That Cannot Be Measured Just Because They Are Largely Due To Chance.

The Difficulty Of Accurate Recognition Constitutes One Of The Most Serious Sources Of Friction In War, By Making Things Appear Entirely Different From What One Had Expected.