Quotes About Warfare

But that's part of the warfare guys. Satan set this whole thing up so he could weaken us with gossip and slander. We need to do as much as we can to protect ourselves from that, or at least provide no fuel for the fire

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.

The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth.

The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.

If we are going to win the next war, in my opinion, 50 percent of the time of training should be allotted to night training.

Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so.

As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

I generally read everything about me. Based on my army experience, I think it's the right thing to do. Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and thought he was winning the war.

Much as Cold War nuclear strategists could argue about winning a nuclear war by having more survivors, advocates of a Global Warming War might see the United States, Western Europe, or Russia as better able to ride out climate disruption and manipulation than, say, China or the countries of the Middle East.

You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

Having left not one of them alive, they stripped the temple of its treasures and burnt everything on the Acropolis.

the Antigonid kingdom of Macedonia also made an alliance with Hannibal.

This had the effect of bringing the Roman legions into the southern

From Antioch, the crusaders went on their way to Jerusalem to seize the city and massacre everyone in it on 15 July 1099.

troops. Not only did he destroy the pirates' bases

One by one, the great cities of the east were either sacked by the Persians or surrendered: