Quotes About Warfare

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage.

All war is based on deception.

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.

Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack.

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Never let the enemy pick the battle site.

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment - and yet - I can't help it - I enjoy every second of it.

The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.