Quotes About Strategy

Sweat saves blood.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

An army marches on its stomach.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

For Germany, the war was like an end game in chess in which she possessed one castle less than her adversary. The loss of the war was as certain as the loss of an end game under these conditions.

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.