Quotes About Combat

David Axelrod put it well, citing how we respond to every Trumpian or Fox News provocation with righteous indignation: [2] "My advice to the Democratic nominee next year is: Don't play. … Wrestling is Mr. Trump's preferred form of combat. But beating him will require jiu-jitsu, a different style of battle typically defined as the art of manipulating an opponent's force against himself…." Absolutely. Moreover, it must begin with un-learning

I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen

We call this a "bow", Cap'n, and the thing that's sticking out of that fellow's head over on the other side of the trench is called an "arrow". If you put them together just right, they'll do all sorts of nice things to people who aren't nice.

In Khuram it is said that a man with a single knife can kill two thousand men in a single night.

Such people there are living and flourishing in the world - Faithless, Hopeless, Charityless: let us have at them, dear friends, with might and main. Some there are, and very successful too, mere quacks and fools: and it was to combat and expose such as those, no doubt, that Laughter was made

If you must fight, fight to win

John was up beside him and slashed out, the bottle smashing across the side of the man's head, shattering.

The enemy will never attack you where you are strongest. … He will attack where you are weakest. If you do not know your weakest point, be certain, your enemy will

Now put your shields before your hearts and fight / With hearts more proof than shields. Advance, my fellows!

Rarely is it advisable to meet prejudices and passions head on. Instead, it is best to appear to conform to them in order to gain time to combat them. One must know how to sail with a contrary wind and to tack until one meets a wind in the right direction. —Fortune de Felice, 1778

ready to fire it like a minié ball.

a few well-placed shots would either kill them or drive them back inside.

measure, he put some slugs into a couple men rushing forward, tugging at their guns. They spun as they were hit, crying out and falling

At least, I did. And I think Chester did, too. In World War II. It's something every combat vet has to live with. Once a person has learned how to survive, and what must be done, that instinct lies just below the surface, very thinly covered with a civilized veneer.

When men are fighting for their lives they are not often disposed to be complimentary to those who are trying to kill them.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

In one respect a cavalry charge is very like ordinary life. So long as you are all right, firmly in your saddle, your horse in hand, and well armed, lots of enemies will give you a wide berth. But as soon as you have lost a stirrup, have a rein cut, have dropped your weapon, are wounded, or your horse is wounded, then is the moment when from all quarters enemies rush upon you. Such

In war all repetitions are perilous. You can do many things with impunity if you do not keep on doing them over and over again.

As Lord Kitchener observed after one heart-shaking discussion: 'We cannot make war as we ought; we can only make it as we can.

No operation of a war is more critical than a night-march.

Battles are won by slaughter and manœuvre. The greater the general, the more he contributes in manœuvre, the less he demands in slaughter.

Nothing…is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

It appears that the German losses in some of the principal combats were a good deal less than we thought at the time, and that reports on both sides were materially exaggerated.