Quotes About Warfare

A raking shot, which entered in the lower deck, had glanced along the beams and through the thickest of the people,

French officer declared that this shot alone had killed or disabled nearly forty men.

I have taken 60,000 prisoners, captured 120 pieces of cannon, more than ninety flags, and more than thirty generals.

I have taken 60,000 prisoners, captured 120 pieces of cannon, more than ninety flags,

and more than thirty generals.

the French and Spanish fleets were moving hurriedly to form a line of battle in the dark.

In the end, Adams believes, we "may come to regard tactical warfare as properly the business of machines and not appropriate for people at all."7

Out on his flank, a soldier whipped up his crossbow, cocked it with a jerk on a leather thong, took aim and let fly. The iron-tipped arrow whistled through the air and found its mark, straight between the shoulder blades of the retreating spy. The man dropped like a stone. A short scream became a cough, and the cough a torrent of blood on the sand.

Don't let anyone but a soldier tell you how to fight a war.

Rule number one in Spec Psyops: look like a winner all the time, Sergeant. Unless you need to look like a loser so you can surprise-punch your enemy right in the BALLS!

Nah, pride's just a slick dress uniform and a cheap lie that'll get you killed when the people you're fighting for, who aren't doing any of the actual fighting, start selling you out and

Empires are built with broken bones and rivers of blood.

And it was gone—the super-carrier Justice. At least three thousand souls manning its gun crews, engine rooms, half a dozen flightdecks ... all gone in a brilliant, pixelated flash of light. The massive ship fractured into two main pieces, and the aliens, not content with the destruction, blasted the remaining larger half until it too exploded into several dozen smaller pieces.

A stray round blasted into her right wing

The thought of going alone into the king's tent full of men who had just killed other men made her feel dizzy.

The gesiths they passed sang a cheerful, ugly song. One in four rode with poles topped by brutalised heads of Lindeymen. They did not look human. Hild pretended they were not.

Sólo a través de la lucha armada se pueden crear las condiciones subjetivas de la revolución. Sólo a través de la guerra de guerrillas se pueden crear las condiciones para la construcción de un Ejército del Pueblo"[33]

American artillery was now taking its toll on Rommel's Panzers.

Fifty-two German tanks were completely destroyed, while the British lost none at all and only one squadron was engaged in the fighting.

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

They sat it "Rains Blood" at scenes of battle... you truly...make blood rain

Before the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe had things their own way. They had won in Spain, in Poland, in Belgium, in France. Over Britain, for the first time, they came up against something they couldn't beat. It was not easy for them to understand that.

Our squadron commander said, 'You've got to shoot down four enemy planes before you're shot down yourself because that's what the odds are. Otherwise you're wasting your time.

the only means by which field-grade officers can expect a promotion is combat.