Quotes About Warfare

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.

The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.

Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will become demoralized and will be destroyed.

Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war.

The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.

God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.

Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.

War is a matter of vital importance to the state.

A political war can be fought from anywhere.

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.

Defense is the first act of war.

The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.

The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.

War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down.

Men have periods; they're called wars.