Quotes About Strategy

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.

All wars are won or lost before they are ever fought.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

Do not engage an enemy more powerful than you. And if it is unavoidable and you do have to engage, then make sure you engage it on your terms, not on your enemy's terms.

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.

Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

Great battles are won with artillery.

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

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a strategem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person.

The cause of war is preparation for war.

If you want peace, understand war.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

The secret of war lies in the communications.

The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.

The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big things, like building a great Buddha from a one foot model.

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.