Quotes About Warfare

Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

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

Corporate competition is fierce, viewed by many as economic warfare where all is fair. But politics... now, this is something unique.

I do agree that when it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.

We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.

All warfare is based on deception.

Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.

We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

What's on my playlist when I'm fighting is not so much hip-hop. Sometimes, it's something more inspirational. I get a chance to think about what I'm fighting for, like, my family. It takes me to that state because a lot of times, it's a spiritual warfare for me.

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare.

I do think hubris played a role here as well, the belief that the Lusitania was too big and too fast to ever be caught by any submarine, and that, in any case, no U-boat commander would think to attack the ship because to do so would violate the long-held rules governing naval warfare against merchant shipping.

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

To me, the most terrifying form of warfare would be if there was some simultaneous cyber attack on our grid, on the banking system, and on our transportation system. That would be quite a devastating thing, and yet in theory, absent some real protective measures, that could happen.

It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.

If night raids and detentions are an unavoidable part of modern counterinsurgency warfare, then so is the resentment they breed.