Quotes About Strategy

do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat

These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand.

So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.

Politics is merely war by other means.-an old Andorian saying

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

An unavoidable war is called justice. When brutality is the only option left it is holy

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

Never diagnosed the enemy before.

Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future.

If you aren't preparing for life like a war, you'll end up living like a prisoner of war.

If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.

If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.

He wins his battles by making no mistakes.Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.

The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.

I wonder are we the people really that high on these political agenda's these day's? Or are we merely pawns in the majestic Game of Thrones?

Man with a crossbow in the proper position at the proper time's worth a corps of heavy artillery half an hour late and ten miles down the road from where it should be.

If everyone loves you, maybe you don't need so many tanks.

If you have to fight old enemies, you should do it with your own old soldiers.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory is won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor." James Franck, The Manhattan Project neatly summarize the atmic bomb.