Quotes About Warfare

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.

By 5 January, a thousand Russian prisoners had been taken, a further 700 soldiers had escaped back to the Russian lines, and over 27,000 had been killed, all for the loss of 900 Finns.

When Stalin approved of issuing fake invasion plans for Overlord, Churchill said, to Stalin's vast amusement, 'In wartime, Truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Another effect of the heavy rainfall of the night of 17–18 June that worked against Napoleon was the way that it softened the ground, to the extent that cannonballs tended to plough into the mud, rather than bounce along hardened ground. A cannonball fired at sun-baked ground might bounce as many as five or six times, leaving death and carnage in its wake, while one that merely buried itself after its initial impact had only a fraction of that lethal capacity.

I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon

I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired.

They looked like scarecrows,' Slim said of his troops. 'But they looked like soldiers, too.' He also recalled the heart-rending sight of a four-year-old child in Imphal trying to spoon-feed her dead mother from a tin of evaporated milk.

There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning. (Warren Buffett, estimated 'worth' $44 billion, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, quoted in the New York Times, 26 November 2006)1

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

They didn't teach me how to tend wounds,' she said bitterly. 'They taught me how to kill, telling me that's how I could save people. It was one big lie, Little Horse. They deceived me.

Wars aren't waged to destroy. Wars are waged for two reasons. One is power and the other is money.

The blades were positioned at an angle–and as they entered his body, the arrow rotated and bored in like a screw, mutilating the tissue, cutting through blood vessels and shattering bone. Aplegatt lurched forward onto his horse's neck and slid to the ground, limp as a sack of wool. The sand on the road was hot, heated up so much by the sun that it was painful to the touch. The messenger didn't feel it. He died at once.

Ogni schermidore è un coglione quando di nemici ne ha una legione, così dicono gli elfi" "Gli elfi non sono soliti esprimersi in maniera così ordinaria

They're taught to kill, and all human feelings and reactions are trained out of them. They're turned into monsters in order to kill other monsters.

winning battles by means of a rapid escape from the battlefield is permissible from the point of view of most military doctrines. The

The special army, skipper, isn't just any old unit. It's not some shitty shield-bearers who just need to be shown which end of the javelin pricks. A special army has to know how to fight like nobody's business!

Their leader had no real knowledge of warfare or tactics. I was only a stubborn man and that was my greatest advantage in this fight.

Where has his humanity gone? His compassion? Ha. Pissed away in shell holes, that's where.

But do you remember when the army of Israel tried to throw off the Philistine yoke in the latter days of Eli the high priest?" "I'd hardly count that a victory. Our people were slaughtered and the Ark of the Covenant stolen.

I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.

War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative novels such as 'The Battle of Dorking' from 1871 showed how SF's trademark 'what if' scenarios could easily encompass warfare.

To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose.

As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.