...no more! Now he who wears the shako of the line or the soft cap of the landwehr must fight as never before, to stop the Ogre of Paris from beginning yet another round of destruction in Europe.

WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD WOLF?
--from WITH MUSKET, CANNON, AND SWORD by Brent Nosworthy (Sarpedon, 1996).

'Napoleonic Warfare,' rather than the product of one person's military genius, or a collective response to the emerging values and attitudes which culminated in the French Revolution, was instead simply the extension on a grand-tactical scale of the properties and capabilities of the basic tactical system which ironically had been in place since the 1750s."

"The principles underlying linear warfare and the 'impulse system' which ultimately replaced it were not mutually exclusive."

"Physical activity was never psychologically neutral."

"Unfortunately for the Allies, limiting their attention to French tactical practice actually hindered their understanding of the true nature of French innovations...The effectiveness of the new French system arose not from the tactical innovations...but from ...the ability of major elements within a French army to act independently along multiple axes of operations, more effective cooperation between the French infantry, cavalry, and artillery arms, and most importantly the ability to concentrate an overwhelming force at the critical point."