Quotes About Strategy

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

When your enemy is tough make your actions rough, you will meet at the same point.

Never mind of what your enemy thinks of you, relax and think a head of him.

A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose.

We only win at war because we fight another government. If we fought private industry we would not last until noontime.

War is much too important a matter to be left to the generals.

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable and therefore much prepared for has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

But in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside the enemy.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.

The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.

I think every war certainly wears on national will and national patience, particularly a counterinsurgency.

When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.

Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.

When it comes to matters of war and peace, we must not act rashly.

There is a shotgun wedding going on and its between Marketing and IT. Finance's worst nightmare

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.