Quotes About Combat

Never diagnosed the enemy before.

War is organized murder and nothing else

Anger and fear are disabling trait behaviours, instilled in the opponent with care.

it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.

An infantryman's job is to deliver his enemies into the waiting hands of Death. It is Doc's job to protect his brothers from Death, to knock him aside and say, "Not today.

In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor." James Franck, The Manhattan Project neatly summarize the atmic bomb.

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

When your enemy is tough make your actions rough, you will meet at the same point.

A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose.

Most sorts of diversion in men children and other animals are in imitation of fighting.

But in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside the enemy.

War hath no fury like a noncombatant.

Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?

War upon rebellion was messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick.

Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat.

It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat.

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence.

Cartwright was a firm believer in the proposition that the best fight was one that was as unfair as possible.

Che Guevara's manual: Know the terrain; hit the enemy at its weakest; never use brute strength.