Quotes About Strategy

What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.

The bow is tactically strong at the commencement of battle, especially battles on a moor, as it is possible to shoot quickly among the spearmen.

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.

Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

All wars will be settled by sea power.

Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.

Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand.

One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.