Military Tactics Quotes

#1. Much of modern military tactics is geared toward maneuvering the enemy into a position where they can essentially be massacred from safety. (pg. 140)

Sebastian Junger

#2. The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life.

George Edward Woodberry

#3. If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

Lajos Kossuth

#4. Man with a crossbow in the proper position at the proper time's worth a corps of heavy artillery half an hour late and ten miles down the road from where it should be.

Gordon R. Dickson

#5. Even when I became the editor of 'Vogue' - America, I kept moonlighting for a garment store.

Mary McFadden

#6. I'm not saying drinking is all that great but you know it's got benefits; you can't smoke somebody pretty.

Doug Stanhope

#7. My favorite special skill on my resume is 'excellent monkey noises.'

Ciara Renee

#8. The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were a very bad way to conduct a war, and that indeed, if that was going to be our practice, that we shouldn't wage conflict again.

Robert McFarlane

#9. YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although it's harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.

Conor Maynard

#10. I'm ... free-spirited. Maybe a little too free-spirited.

Carly Rae Jepsen

#11. It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic of wildness ...

Henry David Thoreau

#13. Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a strategy, an overall concept, and there are tactics along the way ... Tradition would say I was a 'child of Mars.'

James Hillman

#14. In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.

Ferdinand Foch

#15. Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional, impersonating the adult they've already decided they want to become.

William Deresiewicz

#16. Well, the first and only time I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again. But I know a lot about guns, so I go to the gun range and stuff like that with friends sometimes.

Channing Tatum

#17. Some officers of his acquaintance had barked and yelled and shouted. He had always found it more effective to speak low and quiet, enunciating clearly and precisely as if to an idiot child, bearing down with an icy stare. That way he had found the implied menace to be unmistakable.

Lee Child

#18. Do not fear to live thy sacred life.

Lailah Gifty Akita