Quotes About Warfare

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

I think it is tragic that a situation should arise where civilians on any side are killed. But it is almost a cliche to say that it is virtually unavoidable and this isn't unique to us alone.

Virtually every time the U.S. fires a missile from a drone and ends the lives of Muslims, American media outlets dutifully trumpet in headlines that the dead were 'militants' - even though those media outlets literally do not have the slightest idea of who was actually killed.

What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?

Though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:3–5)

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

like buzz bombs in the Blitz.

The longbow would still have been used in the Napoleonic Wars if the raw mathematics of killing effectiveness was all that mattered, since both the longbow's firing rate and its accuracy were much greater than that of a smoothbore musket. But a frightened man, thinking with his midbrain and going "ploink, ploink, ploink" with a bow, doesn't stand a chance against an equally frightened man going "BANG! BANG!" with a musket.

Ukrainian women did not wait for doors to be open for them to serve in all capacities. They broke the doors down and have proven themselves as combat capable force multipliers. (re: response of Ukrainian women to the 2022 invasion of their country by the Russian Federation)

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

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

I watched her walk away and thought that if anybody could make a fighting suit look sexy, it'd be Sean. But even she couldn't.

Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by a complex interrelationship among military victory, economic pressures, logistic maneuvering, access to the enemy's information, political

Time flies when you're firing a sub machine gun. 

In general, our generals were out generalled.

Oddly enough, our views were shaped quite a bit by the example of the thirteenth-century Mongol campaigns of conquest. Genghis Khan's "hordes" – often smaller than the armies they faced – benefited immeasurably from what we today call near-real-time reporting on the disposition, composition, and movements of the enemy by their corps of "Arrow Riders," a Pony-Express-like communication system that gave the Khan a consistent winning advantage.

John B. Hattendorf

It's natural to worry about physical stuff like weaponry and resources. What we should really worry about is psychological stuff like ideologies and norms. As the UNESCO slogan puts it, "Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

Artillery adds dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl.

Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.

From Mahmud Ghazni to Ahmed Shah Abdali, Punjab was hit by marauders so many times that we have learnt to laugh even at death.