Quotes About Combat

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.

When we go to war I will not ask the White Racist next to me what is he Christian or Atheist? I will only expect him or her to kill the enemy as I will.

If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.

Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.

On both difficult and easy terrain, you must know the 'tenable' and 'fatal' ground. Occupy tenable ground and attack on fatal ground.

War is life war is the origin of all things.

All war is deception.

Speed is the essence of war.

War is the science of destruction.

The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.

It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war.

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

Police do not belong in war zones.

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

For a time, the Flying Tigers provided the only victories against the Japanese anywhere in the Far East... This handful of men had shown that the Japanese were not invincible.

Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington's approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.