Quotes About Warfare

La maniobra que trae a un aliado al campo de batalla es tan útil como la que permite ganar una gran batalla. La maniobra que consigue obtener un importante punto estratégico puede ser menos valiosa que aquella que apacigua o desactiva a un tercero peligroso y aparentemente neutral. Winston Churchill, La crisis mundial

The forward movement necessary to occupy enemy territory taxed the attacker's energies and resources, while the defender was able to use this time to prepare to receive the attacker.

Tactics defined as "the science of military movements

Von Moltke saw the tactical task as conceptually simple—destroying as much of the enemy force as possible—but practically challenging, which was why his preparations for battle were meticulous. Once battle was done strategy came back into play.

There is simply no proof that warfare in small-scale societies was a rarer or less serious undertaking than among civilized societies. In general, warfare in prestate societies was both frequent and important. If anything, peace was a scarcer commodity for members of bands, tribes, and chiefdoms than for the average citizen of a civilized state.

Except in geographical scale, tribal warfare could be and often was total war in every modern sense. Like states and empires, smaller societies can make a desolation and call it peace. TERRITORIAL

There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

Peace, gentlemen, it is well known, does not come of its own accord, and neither does freedom. Peace has enemies. Peace must be won by the sword.

spent most of her ten-year military career at a keyboard, directing drone strikes against terrorists. She'd killed more people from the comfort of a Herman Miller chair, with a Starbucks Cinnamon Dolce Latte in one hand, than most soldiers

Our first task therefore is to try to grasp what the concept of the enemy really means. The enemy is someone who is willing to die in order to kill you. And while it is true that the enemy always hates us for a reason, it is his reason and not ours. He does not hate us for our faults any more than for our virtues. He sees a different world from ours, and in the world he sees, we are his enemy. This is hard for us to comprehend, but we must if we are to grasp what the concept of the enemy means.

They say the mustard manufacturers get rich from the dabs of mustard people leave on their plates. And we'll get rich in the same way, darling. From selling the soldiers weapons they'll never use.

But what is the core of the political? Men killing men on the largest scale in broad daylight and with the greatest serenity.

The bombing of the main islands of Japan was now possible, and in the most massive of the raids, a firebombing of Tokyo, more than eighty thousand people died in the huge inferno in a single night.

I'd criticized foreign governments for using chemical warfare, and here I was buying nerve gas from a woman who waxed off all her pubic hair.

Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.

Unlike Hezbollah, Israel's more modest aim is to survive, and that it has done.

The last thing we want to do is to go into an area and inflict unnecessary civilian casualties. One is too many.

With the advance of feudalism came the growth of iron armor, until, at last, a fighting-man resembled an armadillo.

And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.

Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.

Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

A country that armed Stalin to defeat Hitler can certainly work alongside enemies of al-Qaida to defeat al-Qaida.

Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill...tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.