Quotes About Strategy

You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

One thing we said as an offense is we want to start games fast ... we want the other team to play catch-up to us.

We're really talking about the Army and Marine Corps here for almost all these ground combat jobs. They want to move in a careful, deliberate manner.

Yeah, that's exactly what I want. To help my girlfriend get her old boyfriend back.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.

We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.

During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.

Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.

All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

War is ninety percent information.

He who knows his enemy and himself well will not be defeated easily.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.