Iron, unflinching attitude of all superiors, greatest confidence, faith in victory, overcoming of the past by getting used to the heaviest strain. A long period of peace would not do us any good. Therefore it is necessary to expect everything. It is not machines that fight each other, but men. We have the better quality of men.
Mental factors are decisive.
The opposite camp has weaker people. In 1918 the nation fell down because the mental pre-requisites were not sufficient. Frederic the Great secured final success only through his mental power. Destruction of Poland in the foreground. The aim is the elimination of living forces, not the arrival at a certain line.