Top 32 Quotes About Battle Strategy
#1. Sit on him? What kind of battle strategy is that?
Ilona Andrews
#2. You're doing just fine. You've done everything exactly as I would have done. Have you studied battle strategy?" he asked. "No, but I do play World of Warcraft." "Sounds useful, you'll have to show me later.
Alanea Alder
#3. Conform to the enemy's tactics until a favorable opportunity offers; then come forth and engage in a battle that shall prove decisive.
Sun Tzu
#4. I have always considered Saipan the decisive battle of the Pacific offensive ... (it was) the naval and military heart and brain of the Japanese defence strategy.
Holland Smith
#5. You're a clever strategist, but not all battles require tricks. Sometimes the simplest way to kill something is to swim up to it and bite it in half.
Shaun Hick
#6. 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
#7. However, he didn't have a high opinion of the average man's ability as a fighter. The majority of men couldn't fight at all and even most outlaws were the merest amateurs when it came to battle. Few could shoot well, and even fewer had any mind for strategy.
Larry McMurtry
#8. [The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#9. Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician.- G. A. Custer
Robert Asprin
#10. If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Sun Tzu
#11. It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.
Erwin Rommel
#12. Never fear the weapon, only the man wielding it. Focus on your opponent while he focuses on his knife or saber or pistol. He invests his power in the weapon but forgets the rest of his body.
Dan Millman
#13. 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
#14. Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle ... They conquer by strategy.
Sun Tzu
#15. The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.
John Christopher
#16. If there is no way out and confrontation and battle is inevitable, one can use power and strategy, balance and wisdom and enlightenment to win, of course. But the best battle is the battle that is never fought.
Frederick Lenz
#17. If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.
Robert Jordan
#18. Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.
Naveen Jain
#19. The Warrior knows that no man is an island.
He cannot fight alone; whatever his plan, he depends on other people. He needs to discuss his strategy, to ask for help, and, in moments of relaxation, to have someone with whom he can sit by the fire, someone he can regale with tales of battle.
Paulo Coelho
#20. Our whole strategy must be to prevent the Allies from securing a beachhead, because once they achieve that, the battle is lost ... perhaps even the war.
Ken Follett
#21. . . . what matters in combat is adaptability, boldness and maintaining A cool exterior, whilst penetrating your enemy's soul with An icy cold stare
- Diary of A Combat Fiend
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
#22. That if you believe, really believe, and if your strategy is sound, and if you're willing to leave everything you've got on the field of battle to win the day" - he held his arms wide - "you can do anything." She'd
Dennis Lehane
#23. In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#24. A weapon is merely a weapon, nothing more. What matters is how you use it.
Kaoru Kurimoto
#26. A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#27. If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him. Though an obstinate fight may be made by a small force, in the end it must be captured by the larger force.
Sun Tzu
#28. There is in guerilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle.
Mao Zedong
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Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand Strategy
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
Robert Greene
#30. If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.
Sherwood Smith
#31. Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.
Sun Tzu
#32. First lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle; if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured
Sun Tzu
