Quotes About Strategy

The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.

Guns make you stupidbetter to fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

We're facing a very different sort of threat now, a more amorphous threat, al Qaeda, terrorism, and so on. And so the military has abandoned the two-war strategy.

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?

The reality is that we've seen the last of any serious price wars for a long time. I don't think any of the others could afford it, certainly not on a long-term basis.

Never go to war unless your willing to win.

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.

If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows.

Reducing military presence has never in history won a war.

As almost anyone with war experience knows, you're never supposed to show the enemy what you won't do to win.

In any symmetrical war in today's world, it is necessary to have regional support.

The Limeys want us in even with our hastily made plans and our half-trained and half-equipped troops.

You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war...not a good comparison.

You can only win the 'war' with ideas, not with spending cuts

I think the US and UK thought if they gave a bit more time to Israel, they would crush Hezbollah. But it became very obvious that was an unwinnable war.

The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.

The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.

Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it.

This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.