Quotes About Strategy

In modern military colleges strategic theory often receives significantly less attention than subjects such as defence management and procurement. The result of such an approach is that the military tend towards an over-reliance on simplistic principles concerned with tactical and operational issues, such as the Principles of War.

This isn't combat. It's diplomacy." "Diplomacy with guns is combat.

will be the hunter and not the hunted.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.

Self-deception is an indispensable element of war, and that despite the fact that wars are calculated and planned, there is a sense in which human beings do not know what they are doing when they cut one another down on the battlefield.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

Germans needed to reduce their casualties "if we do not intend to win ourselves to death.

David M. Glantz

David M. Glantz

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

God is on the side with the best artillery

Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.

There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.

Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.

The minute Putin went into Crimea, what Obama should have done is sent 50,000 troops to NATO. He didn't have to engage them, just send them. That puts the fear of God into people.

I would have promised those terrorists a trip to Disneyland if it would have gotten the hostages released. I thank God they were satisfied with the missiles and we didn't have to go to that extreme.

Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God

God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.

There are two basic rules which should never be broken. Be subtle. And don't, for God's sake, try to do business with anyone who's having a bad game.

My God, Bobby Fischer plays so simply

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.

God is on the side of the heaviest cannon.