As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.