The Backbone Of Surprise Is Fusing Speed

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

It Is Paltry Philosophy If In The Old-fashioned Way One Lays Down Rules And Principles In Total Disregard Of Moral Values . As Soon As These Appear One Regards Them As Exceptions, Which Gives Them A Certain Scientific Status, And Thus Makes Them Into Rules. Or Again One May Appeal To Genius , Which Is Above All Rules; Which Amounts To Admitting That Rules Are Not Only Made For Idiots , But Are Idiotic In Themselves.

No Other Human Activity Is So Continuously Or Universally Bound Up With Chance. And Through The Element Of Chance, Guesswork And Luck Come To Play A Great Part In War.

The Art Of War In Its Highest Point Of View Is Policy.

Close Combat, Man To Man, Is Plainly To Be Regarded As The Real Basis Of Combat.