Quotes About Tactics

Carefully study the well-being of your men, and do not overtax them. Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength. Keep your army continually on the move, and devise unfathomable plans.

There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.

The military played polo. Polo, really, started as a game to train for war.

One bad general is worth two good ones.

The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.

All policies allowed in war and love.

Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.

Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will become demoralized and will be destroyed.

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.

Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.

In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.

Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.

War is a matter of vital importance to the state.

Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army as you would one man.

A political war can be fought from anywhere.

I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.

Advertising is much like war, minus the venom

Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.