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1 " It may be of interest to future generals to realize that one makes plans to fit circumstances stances and does not create circumstances to fit plans. That way danger lies. "
― , Napoleon's Glance: The Secret of Strategy
2 " I was not so insane as to attempt to bend events to conform to my policies. On the contrary, I bent my policies to accord with the unforeseen shape of the events. "
3 " If one can call anticipation of enemy reactions based on a lifetime of professional training and on thinking and application "intuition," he had it ... He was a professional soldier, a student of history "
4 " He meant that Patton could not be bothered with details before making a decision. After Patton made a decision, he worked out everything in great detail, in true von Clausewitz style. Hodges and Bradley, like true Jomini planners, worked out all the details beforehand-they thought that was how you made decisions in the first place. "
5 " The art of war consists, with a numerically inferior army, in always having larger forces than the enemy at the point which is to be attacked or defended ... it is an intuitive way of acting which properly constitutes the genius of war. "
