When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.
War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.
I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.
Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.
Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made.
There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.
To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.
