Quotes About Warfare

Never diagnosed the enemy before.

In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.

War is organized murder and nothing else

The use of rape and enslavement as weapons of war MUST END!

it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.

If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.

He wins his battles by making no mistakes.Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

An infantryman's job is to deliver his enemies into the waiting hands of Death. It is Doc's job to protect his brothers from Death, to knock him aside and say, "Not today.

In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor." James Franck, The Manhattan Project neatly summarize the atmic bomb.

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

At night we cry sometimes, and if you think that just applies to the females then you have never been in combat, because everyone cries sooner or later. Everyone cries.

Waiting for a battle was the hardest part. Unless you got a dagger in your gut during the battle. Then that was hardest. Or you got through just fine and saw your men dead around you. Then that was.

A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose.

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

Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions.

The guerilla must live amongst the people as the fish lives in the water.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

To arms! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe March on! march on! all hearts resolved On victory or death!

War hath no fury like a noncombatant.

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War, ' as it was called until 1939.

My fighting gospel is T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I am never without it.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.