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Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

What matters in any campaign is that you have a strategic core that makes the judgements, decides the strategy, and can deliver.

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.

Tactics are manipulative.

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently.

So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.

A military leader should always understand, of all human endeavors... the one that's the most unpredictable and the most costly is warfare.