Quotes About Warfare

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines...imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps."

War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage.

...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.

As a result of the cold, the machine-guns were no longer able to fire...the result of all this was a panic...The battle worthiness of our infantry is at an end

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

Great battles are won with artillery.

Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.

I do not want to make this charge. I do not see how it can succeed. I would not make it now but that General Lee has ordered it and expects it.

I'm battling with myself and every day it's a war.

Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home!

The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo

Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.

Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action.

Have you ever met a war you didn't love? I'm asking, is there any place you don't want to intervene in?

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

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

We have guided missiles and misguided men.