Quotes About Warfare

Hostile states' use of proxies in war zones to inflict damage on U.S. interests and troops is a constant, longstanding concern.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line, they prepared for the worst.

Onward, Christian soldiers, Marching as to war, With the cross of Jesus Going on before.

Even now we can draw back. But once we cross that little bridge, we must settle things by the sword.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow, and of the man who leads, that gains the victory.

Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.

The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead.

If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.

In Afghanistan and Iraq we would often get cowardly fire and rounds hitting us from the sides but we just hunker down and keep going, we don't turn the mission around.

In 1942, the Germans were running out of fuel. They were advancing so fast across the grasslands, the hot grasslands of south Russia, and the Russians were running out of tanks. And so both of them turned to cavalry, and there were great cavalry battles on the grasslands.

Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.

If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.

'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. 'In the twentieth century, we beat the Russians. In the twenty-first, if we have to, we'll beat the Americans!'

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

Every time I kill someone, he can't plant an I.E.D. You don't think twice about it.

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.

It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]

Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.

The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.