All our measures must be calculated to raise the efficiency of the army, especially in attack; to this end all else must give way.

We shall thus have a central point on which all our measures can be focussed.

We can make them all serve one purpose, and thus we shall be kept from going astray on the bypaths which we all too easily take if we regard matters separately, and not as forming parts of a collective whole.

Much of our previous omissions and commissions would have borne a quite different complexion had we observed this unifying principle.
The requirements which I have described as the most essential are somewhat opposed to the trend of our present efforts, and necessitate a resolute resistance to the controlling forces of our age.
The larger the armies by which one State tries to outbid another, the smaller will be the efficiency and tactical worth of the troops; and not merely the average worth, but the worth of each separate detachment as such.

Huge armies are even a danger to their own cause.