Quotes About Combat

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

I like war.

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

War is the province of danger.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

War is brutal, barbaric and bloody.

A military leader should always understand, of all human endeavors... the one that's the most unpredictable and the most costly is warfare.

All warfare is based on deception.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

Cyberspace is the new domain of warfare.

The Special Operations community is rooted in unconventional warfare.

It's true that if you advise politicians on economic policy in the U.S. today, you spend your time in a cross between inquiry and combat. You are always on the periphery of harsh partisan warfare that has nothing to do with substance.

I worked on anti-submarine warfare for surface ships.

Warfare has changed so dramatically.

Modern warfare has become too techno-ish for my sensibilities.