Quotes About Strategy

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.

Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his movement.

A man-of-war is the best ambassador.

Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.

Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.

Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.

To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him

Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths.

It's east to start a war in any country

Nothing remains static in war or military weapons, and it is consequently often dangerous to rely on courses suggested by apparent similarities in the past.

A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.

In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.

He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.

Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language and driving forward as if to the attack are signs that he will retreat.

Once you start a war, you have to win.

Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.