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In War, The Young Soldier Is Very Apt To Regard Unusual Fatigues As The Consquence Of Faults, Mistakes, And Embarrassment In The Conduct Of The Whole, And To Become Distressed And Depondent As A Consequence. This Would Not Happen If He Had Been Prepared For This Beforehand By Exercises In Peace.

Criticism Exists Only To Recognize The Truth, Not To Act As Judge.

The Deduction Of Effect From Cause Is Often Blocked By Some Insuperable Extrinsic Obstacle: The True Causes May Be Quite Unknown. Nowhere In Life Is This So Common As In War, Where The Facts Are Seldom Fully Known And The Underlying Motives Even Less So.

In The Whole Range Of Human Activities, War Most Closely Resembles A Game Of Cards.

Many Intelligence Reports In War Are Contradictory; Even More Are False, And Most Are Uncertain.