Quotes About Tactics

In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.

Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.

The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity... then you are going to be surprised.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.

In a war the aggressor sets the rules.

A man's idee in a card game is war

The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it.

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.

Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper.

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.

Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.

Most wars are not won in a single battle.

Wars are fought on objectives, not on timetable, and that's why I've been so insistent upon not allowing ourselves to have policy driven by time table, but by objective.

There's never any guarantee at war.

The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.

War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.

To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.

Reducing military presence has never in history won a war.

As almost anyone with war experience knows, you're never supposed to show the enemy what you won't do to win.