Quotes About Strategy

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

I would say we must win the information war against ISIS. Every war we have ever been involved in has had a propaganda informational aspect to it.

War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.

The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget.

I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war.

I think that war is diplomacy. There have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons and there are wars that have had to be fought. Indeed, there will continue to be.

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.

The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.

Councils of War never fight.

While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.

The power of making war often prevents it.

Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.

Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.

Those who prepare for war get it.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

You know, in war, you don't have to be nice. You only have to be right.

Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.