Quotes About Adaptation

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.

The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big things, like building a great Buddha from a one foot model.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

When I have won a victory I do not repeat my tactics but respond to circumstances in an infinite variety of ways.

Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war.

Sweat more during peace: bleed less during war

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

Nothing remains static in war or military weapons, and it is consequently often dangerous to rely on courses suggested by apparent similarities in the past.

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.

He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.

In warfare, there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent will succeed and win.

Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.

War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.

The nature of war is constant change.

The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated.

Be where your enemy is not.

We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.

Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength.