Quotes About Warfare

It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.

I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.

It is preposterous to think that we are peaceful when every day we spend more money to built killing machine than to educate our children.

My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either.

The Lord is the General, and he has the right . . . the sovereign right . . . to put us where he wants in the battle.

The noise was unbelievable … to the point where you could hardly hear the screams of men." Moreton Waitzman, US 29th Infantry Division, Omaha Beach

Each little field [had] one gate … so each a little battlefield… So the Germans fought in that one, and when they got pushed out they fought in the next one." Patrick Delaforce, Royal Horse Artillery, 11th Armoured Division

Kanalkampfführer' – Channel Battle Leader.

dogfight' is 'Kurvenkampf'' i.e. turning fight.

Philippe also brought along musicians - mainly trumpeters and drummers - to scare the enemy. Even then, French music was known to terrify the English.

The long existence of the Roman Empire had everything to do with the legions. While the legions were strong, Rome was strong. Conversely, the disintegration of the Late Empire had everything to do with the disintegration of the legions as effective fighting forces.

La larga existencia del Imperio romano está directamente relacionada con el estado de las legiones. Mientras las legiones fueron fuertes, Roma fue fuerte.

Hitler made only one big mistake when he built his Atlantic Wall," the paratroopers liked to say. "He forgot to put a roof on it.

Anything was better than the blood and carnage, the grime and filth, the impossible demands made on the body—anything, that is, except letting down their buddies.

The Easy Company men began throwing grenades at the retreating enemy. Compton had been an All-American catcher on the UCLA baseball team. The distance to the fleeing enemy was about the same as from home plate to second base. Compton threw his grenade on a straight line—no arch—and it hit a German in the head as it exploded. He

Until this episode, many Americans had believed that their soldiers were different from others, operating on a higher moral plane because their cause was good.

Pitiless class warfare formed the core of Lenin's thought—the

Second Lieutenant William Carey and two other men continued the fight, even when Carey's skull was creased by a musket ball.

Some 50 Americans were killed, 39 wounded, and 5 missing, for a total of 94 casualties. According to Gage, the Redcoats suffered 65 killed, 157 wounded, and 27 missing, for a total of 272 casualties.41 The patriots exhibited excellent marksmanship for shooting flintlocks in anger, many for the first time in their lives. By comparison, U.S. forces in Vietnam expended 50,000 rounds to cause a single enemy casualty.

I prefer Lee to Johnston," he explained. To his mind, General Lee was "too cautious & weak under grave responsibility . . . wanting in moral firmness when pressed by heavy responsibility & is likely to be timid & irresolute in action.

The fact of the matter is that George G. Meade, unexpectedly and against the odds, thoroughly outgeneraled Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg.18

Terrorism is often confused or equated with . . . guerrilla warfare," the terrorism theorist Bruce Hoffman once wrote. " This is not surprising, since guerrillas often employ the same tactics (assassination, kidnapping, bombings of public gathering-places, hostage-taking, etc.) for the same purposes (to intimidate or coerce, thereby affecting behavior through the arousal of fear) as terrorists."34

there is an old adage: If the guerillas do not lose, they ultimately win. . . .

McChrystal knew he could not "defeat" the Taliban with the troops available, although it was not clear at this point whether that was truly America's objective.