Quotes About Warfare

More than twenty thousand men, one third of the army, were lost in the month it took to march

Caesar ordered his soldiers, all passionately loyal to him, to invade Italy.

Warships had brass battering rams on their prows, and the usual tactic was to ram the side of an enemy ship.

Romans tended to fight sea battles as if they were on land.

Near a place called Carrhae he came up against a force of about ten thousand mounted archers.

Only ten thousand of his men survived the debacle. Humiliatingly, many legionary standards were captured.

War is glorious and, at the same time, a great evil.

dozens of tribes and much given to piracy and brigandage.

who decided to launch a military challenge against Octavian.

Arminius had chosen the location for the ambush with great care.

Of the three legions' fifteen thousand men, few survived to tell the tale.

The well-informed Parthians turned up out of the blue with a force of fifty thousand mounted archers

who set on fire all the siege equipment and destroyed it.

Victories in the field count for little if the right decisions are not taken at home (45) - Cicero

The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough; we had to have 50 caliber, also said daylight bombing was right provided the planes attacked in formation, with 50 caliber guns.

Most combat is not a hand-to-hand knife battle that the person who can do the most push-ups is going to end up winning.

Putin drops bombs. We drop leaflets.

Our foreign policy and our military policy is make sure that we fight on foreign shores and not shores here.

I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt.

The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

We will never know exactly how many women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War. At the close of the hostilities, it was estimated that approximately 400 women had managed to enlist, but this number is almost certainly too low.

ISIS has never fought a real battle.

I'm not a fan of what we call 'friendly fire' or 'blue on blue.' We don't want to have that.

En mi experiencia, estas guerras en paises del tercer mundo no se ganan con balas sino con enfermedades, y no hablo de armas biológicas sino de desidia, de brutalidad, de olvido y de marginalidad" ? Florencia Bonelli, Caballo de Fuego: Congo