Quotes About Tactics

When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack.

The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd is defensive.

In the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.

I engage and after that I see what to do.

It is with artillery that war is made.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

We can't win a war, but we can win an election.

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.

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

Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.

The bow is tactically strong at the commencement of battle, especially battles on a moor, as it is possible to shoot quickly among the spearmen.

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.