Quotes About Warfare

Dans les deux cas, l'empereur Napoléon attaqua avec son aile droite en cherchant à résister avec l'aile gauche. L'archiduc Charlesdfit exactement la même chose. Mais le premier le fit avec toute sa résolution et toute son énergie, tandis que le second était indécis et s'arrêtait chaque fois à mi-course.

Ebenso ist die Eroberung von Provinzen eine andere Maßregel, wenn es nicht auf das Niederwerfen des Gegners abgesehen ist. In jenem Falle wäre die Vernichtung seiner Streitkraft die eigentliche wirksame Handlung und das Einnehmen der Provinzen nur die Folge davon; sie einzunehmen, ehe die Streitkraft zusammengeworfen ist, wäre immer nur als ein notwendiges Übel zu betrachten.

Der Soldat wird ausgehoben, gekleidet, bewaffnet, geübt, er schläft, ißt, trinkt und marschiert, alles nur, um an rechter Stelle und zu rechter Zeit zu fechten.

Es ist also nach unserer Einteilung die Taktik die Lehre vom Gebrauch der Streitkräfte im Gefecht, die Strategie die Lehre vom Gebrauch der Gefechte zum Zweck des Krieges.

Your view of the world is just as skewed as someone who has never seen combat... We all state our convictions from within our convictions.

Bernal Díaz del Castillo había sentenciado el destino de nuestro país [España, pero en realidad el mundo]: matarás y matarte han y matarán a quien te matare.

trench graves

Captain Werner Von Bachelle of the 6th Wisconsin in General John Gibbon's Iron Brigade, who died on the Hagerstown Pike with his Newfoundland dog at his side, rests here as well.

The Allied Forces, on their way across France during 1944 and 1945, had consumed scarce food, vandalized, looted and raped, and their destructiveness and rapaciousness was everywhere compared to that of the German soldiers. (Moorehead, 2011, 306)

even the idyllic garden of Eden was a war zone. The command to rule and subdue put God's image bearers on high alert that fierce resistance lay ahead.

The constant bombardment and the randomness with which death scythed us down had exhausted us...

Originating in large scale electronic warfare and anti-jamming technologies for the battlefield devised by two Russian immigrants, these now one-chip systems can fit in a handset and enable intercommunication among the towers of Babel in urban America.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.

No Bastard ever won a war by dying for his country

His helmet now shall make a hive for bees,And lovers' sonnets turned to holy psalms,A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees,And feed on prayers, which are age his alms.

Never wound a foe when you can kill him

Who'd want to kill the likes of you?" "My lord father, for one. He's put me in the van." "I'd do the same. A small man with a big shield. You'll give the archers fits.

Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

First rule, stick them with the pointy end!

Thrones are won with swords, not quills. Spill blood, not ink.

I have touched more men that I can count. Some with my lips, more with my axe.

Valor is a poor substitute for numbers