Strategy was almost a sealed book to them." Also, "Moltke committed no mistake.

Long before war had been declared every possible precaution had been made.

And these included much more than arrangements for rapid mobilization, the assembly of superior numbers completely organized, and the establishment of magazines.

The enemy's numbers, armaments, readiness, and efficiency had been submitted to a most searching examination.
Every possible movement that might be made, however unlikely, had been foreseen; every possible danger that might arise, however remote, discussed and guarded against"; also, "That the Prussian system should be imitated, and her army deprived of its monopoly of high efficiency, was naturally inevitable.

Every European state has to-day its college, its intelligence department, its schools of instruction, and its course of field maneuvers and field firing." Strategy may be divided into two parts, war strategy and preparation strategy; and of these two, preparation strategy is by far the more important.
War strategy deals with the laying out of plans of campaign after war has begun, and the handling of forces until they come into contact with the enemy, when tactics takes those forces in its charge.