Quotes About Combat

We're really talking about the Army and Marine Corps here for almost all these ground combat jobs. They want to move in a careful, deliberate manner.

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight harder.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Tactics is the art of using troops in battle; strategy is the art of using battles to win the war

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil.

When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally and strike naturally.

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.

There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried. . . and we shall see.

I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did.

It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.

Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults

All war is based on deception.

Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack.

Nobody dislikes war more than warriors.

Artillery is the god of war.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.

Never let the enemy pick the battle site.

Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.

Killing is the payoff of war.

Our war on terror begins with al-Qaida, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.