Quotes About Strategy

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.

This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.

Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army as you would one man.

A political war can be fought from anywhere.

The poets think about war more than the social scientists.

I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.

I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.

Advertising is much like war, minus the venom

Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.

War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.

Peace is obtained by war.

It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions.

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.

Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.

The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality.

The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved the peace by a constant preparation for war.

I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.

In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.

Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

We can't be fighting the last war. We have to be preparing to fight the new war.