Quotes About Strategy

We are trying to prevent a third world war.

The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity... then you are going to be surprised.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

This is no longer a battle of devices, it is a war of ecosystems.

A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.

In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

We have to get a lot tougher if we're going to win this war [with ISIS]. If we're not going to be tougher, we're never going to win this war. This is only going to get worse.

At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.

In a war the aggressor sets the rules.

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.

A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.

I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.

Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning.

A great country ought not to make little wars.

A man's idee in a card game is war

The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it.

We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

I am a war president.

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.

In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.