Quotes About Strategy

if only the Generals had not been content to fight machine-gun bullets with the breasts of gallant men, and think that that was waging war.

if the issue were presented to the British as a naked trading away of British possessions for sake of the fifty destroyers it would certainly encounter vehement opposition.

La sorpresa, la rapidez y la intensidad del ataque están supeditadas al estado de preparación del enemigo en un momento dado. Todo movimiento emprendido por un bando puede ser anulado por un movimiento contrario del adversario. En una operación de esta clase, fuerza y tiempo vienen a ser magnitudes de valor equivalente y que pueden en gran medida expresarse en las mismas unidades: una semana perdida viene a equivaler a una división

But the more firmly Russia can establish herself in the saddle now the farther she will ride in the future and the more precarious our holdfast will become.

Madness is however an affliction which in war carries with it the advantage of SURPRISE.

We are now somewhat readily accepting the proposition that high-explosive shells used in unprecedented and extraordinary quantities will achieve decisive results.

By this time next year we shall know whether the Prime Minister's view of Herr Hitler and the German Nazi Party is right or wrong. By this time next year we shall know whether the policy of appeasement has appeased, or whether it has only stimulated a more ferocious appetite.

democracies are apt to think with their hearts rather than with their heads, and a general's business is, or should be, to use his head for planning.

I remember that we had a discussion in the war about unity of command, and that Mr. Lloyd George said, It is not a question of one general being better than another, but of one general being better than two.

Yo sostenía que nuestro margen en barcos de línea, a los que había que añadir los cuatro acorazados del nuevo programa, nos aseguraría una adecuada superioridad para 1912, el llamado, por aquel entonces, «año peligroso».

la artillería conquista y la infantería ocupa»

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. Without winning any sensational victories we may win this war.

no es que un general sea mejor que otro, es que un general es mejor que dos generales».

The use of force for the waging of war is not to be regulated simply by firm character and text-book maxims.

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

It was their own offensive, not ours, that consummated their ruin. They were worn down not by Joffre, Nivelle and Haig, but by Ludendorff. See

the one most awful thing in war is 'the careful man'!

Some at least of its impulse came from the Admiralty.

The machinery of a great party, and still more of a great conspiracy, needed careful and constant attention.

For every reason therefore we must develop the storm troop or Commando idea. I have asked for five thousand parachutists, and we must also have at least ten thousand of these small "bands of brothers" who will be capable of lightning action.

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is a far worse war or one much harder to win.

Siempre se dice que no hay que tratar de hacer más de lo que uno puede y que hay que estar seguros de lo que uno trata de conseguir, pero este principio, como tantos otros en la vida y en la guerra, tiene excepciones. Hay

The story of the human race is War.