Quotes About Strategy

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.

Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.

we train for war and fight to win.

Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will become demoralized and will be destroyed.

I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!

The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.

No deals with the Tories; it's war.

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.

If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.

In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.

War is a matter of vital importance to the state.

We still seek no wider war.