Quotes About Strategy

Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands

Liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.

Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.

I engage and after that I see what to do.

It is with artillery that war is made.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

We can't win a war, but we can win an election.

I was drinking tea the other day, and I thought: they used to fight wars over this.

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.

A great country can have no such thing as a little war.

Great results, can be achieved with small forces.