Quotes About Short Wars

The Battle of the Marne was the end of the Schlieffen Plan, the end of the era of short wars, and the end of the old Europe as well.

The wars of the mid-nineteenth century had been short, and they had been won by the state that got the most men in the field the earliest; theorists concluded that mobilization of a vast number of men was of primary importance.

Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids.

Here was another way Israel was different from the United States: Its wars were short, and someone always won.

But all that is past history. With the amazing advances in artillery, the wars of the future, if there are any, will be so short that peace will have been declared before there is time to put our lessons into practice.

In the course of a campaign, if it is at all long, you will see one belligerent profiting by the lessons furnished him by the successes and mistakes, perfecting the methods of the other, who will improve on him in turn. But all that is a thing of the past. With the terrible advance of artillery, the wars of the future, if there are to be any more wars, will be so short that, before we have had time to think of putting our lessons into practice, peace will have been signed.

But all that is a thing of the past. With the terrible advance of artillery, the wars of the future, if there are to be any more wars, will be so short that, before we have had time to think of putting our lessons into practice, peace will have been signed.