Quotes About Warfare

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

Traditionally in American cinema, Black men and women's participation in world wars is often not even represented at all.

As Eusebius recounted the story, Constantine seemed to believe there was a basic incompatibility between being an emperor and being a Christian, between court and church, warfare and prayer, the purple and the white. It would be an ironic conclusion: Constantine, the first anti-Constantinian. Constantine the Yoderian

from 4,000 yards.4 He exceeded

Clausewitzian strategy of seeking the most expeditious means of weakening the enemy's will to continue the struggle.28

Está enojado por la noticia de que el ejército israelita solo mató a todos los hombres, tomando prisioneros a las mujeres y los niños. En su celo, alimentado por la conciencia del pacto, Moisés insiste en matar a todos los niños y a las mujeres adultas, perdonando solo a las niñas vírgenes: "Pero a todas las niñas entre las mujeres que no hayan conocido varón, las dejaréis con vida para vosotros

The art of war lies in calculating the odds very closely to begin with, and then in adding exactly, almost mathematically, the factor of chance. Chance

Such perfection endures. For more than two millennia after horse-riding was invented, the warhorse remained the most important military technology bar none. A plentiful supply of horses was critical even in the 19th century, well after firearms had replaced the bows and arrows. Have you ever wondered why Napoleon, who won all of his battles until 1812, lost one battle after another in 1813 and 1814, leading to defeat and abdication? The surprising answer is: horses.

GRUNTS LOOK THE ENEMY IN THE EYE. GRUNTS KNOW THE STAKES. GRUNTS KNOW THE PRICE OF POOR STRATEGY. WHAT DO THE GENERALS KNOW? OVERLAYS AND TACTICAL PLOTS. THE WHOLE CHAIN OF COMMAND IS UPSIDE-DOWN. –KENNETH LUBIN, ZERO SUM

And if the best toys do end up in the hands of those who've never forgotten that life itself is an act of war against intelligent opponents, what does that say about a race whose machines travel between the stars?

It was full of dead Prussian Guards, big men, and dead Royal Welch Fusiliers and South Wales Borderers, little men. Not a single tree in the wood remained unbroken.

Mike explained the concepts of guerilla warfare to Richard and told him more about his sexual conquests in 'Nam. These stories hung inside Richard's head like obscene, perverse paintings. Mike still had the pictures of his conquests, which he showed Richard, and these photographs gave dimension, life, and sustenance to Mike's tales of sexual dominance and sadism and Richard's subsequent fantasies.

Part of the American dream, for example, is to deny that there are class lines drawn through the middle of American society. Each year, however, the widening gap between the 1 percent and the 99 percent turns that persistent American dream into more of a myth. Particularly instructive in this regard is the famous boast by Warren Buffett (quoted by the Marxist theorist Joerg Rieger) that "there is such a thing as class warfare and that his class is winning it."1

There are two things that create, protect, and increase a sovereign's rule—soldiers and money—both being dependent on each other. Armies need money and money is acquired by the strength of arms. If you lose one, you lose the other. Caesar

History has been so fascinated with Alexander the Great that it has overlooked the genius of his father. But by his supreme skill at diplomacy, his mastery of intrigue, and his revolutionary innovations in warfare, Philip laid the foundation for everything his son achieved. Yet

Pappas was so affected by this sudden horror that he never again took off his flak jacket. It was reported to me that he always wore his jacket and hard helmet even while showering.

I love the hush of those deserted places, those old battlefields, always so breathtaking, as if we, as a species, have decided to fight only in beautiful places.

the Die-Hards cited the fact that it took five times the number of British troops to suppress the Boer guerillas.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Not since murder became the continuation of politics by other means.

We must picture Oxford, during World War I, not as the neomedieval paradise it would like to be, but as the military compound it was obliged to become.

Phillip Jennings

Whether you are in a street fight or confronting an invading army, appear weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak.