War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.
If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
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