Quotes About Tactics

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

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

Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.

A battle that you win cancels all your mistakes.

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried. . . and we shall see.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.

I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did.

It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.

We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage.

All war is based on deception.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.

When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.

Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset.