Quotes About Warfare

For warfare, a man needs only his mind. But to win, it requires a talent and resources.

O Lord, to comport myself as a man tomorrow in the day of battle.

The gravel paths were moist and the grass was wet with dew. The battery fired twice and the air came each time like a blow and shook the window and made the front of my pajamas flap. I could see the guns but they were evidently firing directly over us. It was a nuisance to have them there but it was a comfort that they were no bigger.

In him, too, was despair from the sorrow that soldiers turn to hatred in order that they may continue to be soldiers

But an army that is made up of good and bad elements cannot win a war. All must be brought to a certain level of political development; all must know why they are fighting, and its importance. All must believe in the fight they are to make and all must accept discipline. - For Whom the Bell Tolls

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

No plan survives contact with the enemy

Loose lips sink ships.

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.

Sweat saves blood.

El sudor ahorra sangre, la sangre ahorra vidas, y el cerebro, las dos cosas.

Let him come! I have seen them come before -- at Margesfontein, Spion Kiopje, Modder River. Stepping into battle, left right left right, waving their silly swords, so afraid they couldn't show off how brave they was, and with mine rifle I kills them so easy!

We just used grenades and MP7s," says Hughes. "That doesn't exactly sound humane," replies Kell. "Those crocodiles were all members of ISIS. My commander told me so.

On THE DECSIVE DUEL: SPITFIRE VS 109 The epic struggle between the Spitfire and the Messerschmitt 109 upon which so much of western civilization depended in the summer of 1940 has found the ideal biographer in David Isby. I write "biographer" because, like the men who flew these remarkable fighter planes, Isby sees them in almost human terms, transcending the mere mechanical. (Andrew Roberts, Author Of The Storm Of War )

In the Second World War his bulldog obstinacy proved invaluable; during the Gallipoli campaign it left him appallingly vulnerable.

It's not enough to kill a Russian,' went the admiring saying in the Grande Armée, 'you have to push him over too.')

When Reynaud asked what would happen when the Germans attempted to invade Britain, Churchill replied, 'I haven't thought that out very carefully, but, broadly speaking, I should propose to drown as many as possible of them on the way over, and then "frapper sur la tête" [knock on the head] anyone who managed to crawl ashore.

Tuve la impresión de hallarme en sintonía con el destino y de que toda mi vida pasada no había sido sino un largo preparativo para esta hora y para esta prueba [...]. No se me podía reprochar ni que hubiera declarado la guerra ni que me faltara preparación para librarla. Pensé que sabía muchas cosas sobre el particular, y estaba seguro de que no iba a fracasar».

when an MP told him that the public demanded all-out bombing of German civilians, especially in Berlin, Churchill replied, 'My dear sir, this is a military and not a civilian war. You and others may desire to kill women and children. We desire (and have succeeded in our desire) to destroy German military objectives. I quite appreciate your point. But my motto is "Business before pleasure.

For every American who died, the Japanese lost 6 people, the Germans 11, and the Russians 92.

There are two people who sink U-boats in this war, Talbot,' he said. 'You sink them in the Atlantic and I sink them in the House of Commons. The trouble is that you are sinking them at exactly half the rate I am.

Battles are won by slaughter and manoeuvre,' he wrote in The World Crisis. 'The greater the general, the more he contributes in manoeuvre, the less he demands in slaughter.

set up to study the tactics and equipment required to defeat Japan, even recommended the use of mustard and phosgene gas against underground enemy positions, and was supported in this by Army Chief of Staff George Marshall and Supreme Commander General Douglas MacArthur, but it was vetoed by President Roosevelt.

Ultimately over half a million Germans died from aerial bombardment during the war, to Britain's 58,000.