Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defense, but depends on the sabre. In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle. Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors. I believe one bad general to be worth two good ones.
War is like government, a matter of tact.
The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior. An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army. A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten. A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.