Quotes About Combat

As one Finn put it after the battle of Kuhmo, 'There were more Russians than we had bullets.

It's not enough to kill a Russian,' went the admiring saying in the Grande Armée, 'you have to push him over too.')

When Reynaud asked what would happen when the Germans attempted to invade Britain, Churchill replied, 'I haven't thought that out very carefully, but, broadly speaking, I should propose to drown as many as possible of them on the way over, and then "frapper sur la tête" [knock on the head] anyone who managed to crawl ashore.

Napoleon understood "that it is necessary never to inspire too much contempt for the enemy, because should you find an obstinate resistance, the morale of the soldier might be shaken by it."27 Instead, Napoleon openly recognized the worth of enemy units, thereby increasing his troops' morale when they overcame them.

It was the Russians who provided the oceans of blood necessary to defeat Germany, and it cannot be reiterated enough that out of every five Germans killed in combat – that is, on the battlefield rather than in aerial bombing or through other means – four died on the Eastern Front.

Battles are won by slaughter and manoeuvre,' he wrote in The World Crisis. 'The greater the general, the more he contributes in manoeuvre, the less he demands in slaughter.

We don't let them rest,' said General Kurt Wallenius of the Finnish Northern Army; 'we don't let them sleep. This is a war of numbers against brains.

If you make war,' he would say to General d'Hédouville in December 1799, 'wage it with energy and severity; it is the only means of making it shorter and consequently less deplorable for mankind.'79

Keras grinned. "Good. I haven't had a decent scrap in a while. Let me get my trouble coat.

Enough talk. Now this ends."" That was my signal to dodge. I was always grateful to enemies that telegraphed their attacks.

The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.

he who fights with the sword dies by the sword.

I believe in the sword. As you can see, I carry two. Every witcher does. It's said, spitefully, the silver one is for monsters and the iron for humans. But that's wrong. As there are monsters which can be struck down only with a silver blade, so there are those for whom iron is lethal. And lola, not just any iron, it must come from a meteorite

manticore, wyvern, fogler, aeschna, ilyocoris, chimera, leshy, vampire, ghoul, graveir, werewolf, giant scorpion, striga, black annis, kikimora, vypper…so many I've killed.

Sólo la muerte pondrá fin al combate, todo lo demás es una mera interrupción.

When you know about something it stops being a nightmare. When you know how to fight something, it stops being so threatening. So how do you fight a ghoul, Ciri?

Geralt jumped to the side, spun a swift pirouette.

If the ability to make use of experience and draw conclusions decided, we would have forgotten what war is a long time ago. But those whose goal is war have never been held back, nor will be, by experience or analogy." "So…

Ogni schermidore è un coglione quando di nemici ne ha una legione, così dicono gli elfi" "Gli elfi non sono soliti esprimersi in maniera così ordinaria

Sword can always be drawn again, faster than you imagine.

A manticore, wyvern, fogler, aeschna, ilyocoris, chimera, leshy, vampire, ghoul, graveir, werewolf, giant scorpion, striga, black annis, kikimora, vypper… so many I've killed.

They're taught to kill, and all human feelings and reactions are trained out of them. They're turned into monsters in order to kill other monsters.

winning battles by means of a rapid escape from the battlefield is permissible from the point of view of most military doctrines. The

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