Quotes About Warfare

The next star shell revealed a horrific panorama: The snow was smeared with blood. Twisted corpses and shorn body parts had been flung in all directions.

Farewell, brave boys, may your guns always salute friends and terrify enemies.

Osiemnastego wieczorem zebrali?my si? u Anielewicza, ca?a pi?tka, sztab. Ja chyba by?em najstarszy, mia?em dwadzie?cia dwa lata, Anielewicz by? m?odszy o rok, razem, w pi?ciu, mieli?my sto dziesi?? lat.

Then a machine—I thought I recognized the Canadian emblem—approached for a low-flying attack on the armored radio station. At 20 yards, I could clearly see the pilot's face under his flight helmet. But instead of shooting, he signaled with his hand for the radio officer to clear off, and pulled his machine up into a great curve. "Get the operator out of the vehicle," I shouted, "and take cover, the pair of you.

From that visit I took away one lesson: Death is the price you pay for underestimating this tenacious enemy.

There is no glory in war—only good men dying terrible deaths.

War is absolutely the last card any national leader should play, and only when every other alternative has been exhausted. If the hand was being played by an old soldier, a war veteran, I can assure you he would guard that war card to the bitter end and play it reluctantly and with the fear and trepidation of experience.

Their orders were to draw the newly arrived Americans into battle and search for the flaws in their thinking that would allow a Third World army of peasant soldiers who traveled by foot and fought at the distant end of a two-month-long supply line of porters not only to survive and persevere, but ultimately to prevail in the war—which was, for them, entering a new phase.

We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don't want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances.

Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.

Indeed, Clausewitz was wary of the general who tried to be too smart. He preferred those who kept their imaginations in check and a firm grip on the harsh realities of battle.

Strategy is revolution. Everything else is tactics.

A strategist should think in terms of paralyzing, not of killing. —Basil Liddell Hart

Napoleon embodied a new way of fighting wars: a combination of individual genius and mass organization, and objectives far more ambitious than those of his predecessors.

The Art of War did not provide a single route to victory and recognized that while battles were best avoided they sometimes had to be fought.

Con el habitual destrozo cataclísmico con que se derrumba el pasado, se abrió paso la idea de que las nuevas guerras iban a encontrarse siempre en países pobres y sus alrededores. Cada vez más temas internacionales tenían como protagonistas a estos países con guerras internas.

La estrategia sin táctica es el camino más lento hacia la victoria. La táctica sin estrategia es el ruido antes de la derrota. Sun Tzu

Emplear ejércitos para ataques ocasionales, asaltos contra los recursos económicos del enemigo, para amenazar o desmoralizar a la población enemiga puede resultar una forma alternativa de coacción frente a la batalla abierta.

Clausewitz aceptaba que los objetivos militares deberían ser fijados por los políticos.

qué general había enviado jamás por delante a una banda de música con órdenes de notificar al enemigo que cierto día iba a comenzar el ataque».

What Frederick shared with Napoleon—and what later theorists celebrated in both—was the ability to create strength on the battlefield, even without an overall numerical advantage, and direct it against an enemy's vulnerabilities.

La perfección de la estrategia sería, por tanto, generar una solución al conflicto sin una verdadera lucha».

acabó sepultado en Waterloo en 1815.