Quotes About Tactics

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.

If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

I ended the war a horse ahead.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Quickness is the essence of the war.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

I like dealing with a peer so I can bully them. Because then, it's not bullying. It's just warfare.

Modern warfare is by no means merely a matter of military operations. Economic affairs stand together with them in the first rank of the factors of importance.

A military leader should always understand, of all human endeavors... the one that's the most unpredictable and the most costly is warfare.

Corporate competition is fierce, viewed by many as economic warfare where all is fair. But politics... now, this is something unique.

All warfare is based on deception.

Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.

The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare.