Lao Tzu Quotes

The natural advantages that the Arabs had in the abovementioned battles exist also for the Tel-Aviv road. They can gather a force of thousands of fighters who will decide the battle by sheer quantity of firepower and by blocking the escape routes for people and vehicles. The forces at our command will not be sufficient to withstand an attack of this force, and if there is no change in the power balance the road may be cut off in the next few days.

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

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.

As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on tactics and strategy. The mission of the infantry is to 'close with, and destroy, the enemy.' Our job, in a direct way, is to fight and win wars.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

When you have the weapon that will win the war, you'd be foolish not to use it.

All military history records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than numbers and resources

The combat man isn't the same clean-cut lad because you don't fight a kraut by Marquis of Queensberry rules. You shoot him in the back, you blow him apart with mines, you kill or maim him the quickest and most effective way you can with the least danger to yourself. He does the same to you.

Picatinny Arsenal is essential to the safety of our women and men in the field and to delivering a qualitative edge for our military.

In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.

Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity.

To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.

Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don't know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him.

I give it as my fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share; whereas, in less than two campaigns, we conquered a great country and a peace without the loss of a single battle or skirmish.

Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence.

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

To surprise the enemy is to defeat him.

Those skilled in attack move as from above the nine-fold heavens. Thus they are capable both of protecting themselves and of gaining complete victory.

When you're in the arena...you just remember who the enemy is" - Haymitch

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.

I was told once that the most important part of a fight is making sure your opponent looks worse than you do when you’re through.

Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer