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I need some good military strategist sayings...

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." - Gen. George S. Patton, Jr
 
okay...I forgot to be specific. 🙂

I need quotes on dealing with the enemy or opponent, similar to the fake quote I had given.
 
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
--John Stewart Mill--
 
"Hit the other fellow, as quick as you can, and as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'" -- Anonymous.
 
In war there is no substitute for victory.
--General Douglas MacArthur--

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
--George Orwell--
 
Truly one of the All-Time best quotes:

In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkopf was asked if he didn't think there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harbored and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America.

His answer was classic Schwartzkopf. He said, "I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the
meeting."

This is definitely in my top 5 quotes of all time.
 
There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time."
- General George Patton Jr

"In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military."
-General Douglas MacArthur
 
"Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics." - Donald Goldstein, author of "At Dawn We Slept" and "Miracle at Midway".

"Oblige them." - Colin Powel's response to the question, "How do you deal with an enemy who is willing to die for their cause?"

ZV
 
"What you are about to see is without a doubt the luckiest guy in Iraq." - General Norman Schwartzkopf as he displays video footage of a car ever-so-narrowly escaping a laser guided bomb attack on a bridge.

It has nothing to do with strategy, but I always loved that clip.
 
Originally posted by: tcsenter
"What you are about to see is without a doubt the luckiest guy in Iraq." - General Norman Schwartzkopf as he displays video footage of a car ever-so-narrowly escaping a laser guided bomb attack on a bridge.

It has nothing to do with strategy, but I always loved that clip.
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🙂 LOL

The follow up to that would be the video of the Air Commander's HQ getting bombed and the video being shown by General Charles Horner saying "now this is my counterpart's command headquarters" followed by laugher from the news crew.

Grasshopper
 
Originally posted by: Rogue
Truly one of the All-Time best quotes:

In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkopf was asked if he didn't think there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harbored and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America.

His answer was classic Schwartzkopf. He said, "I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the
meeting."

This is definitely in my top 5 quotes of all time.
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Amen to that!
 

"Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics." - Donald Goldstein, author of "At Dawn We Slept" and "Miracle at Midway".

for what it's worth, gordon w. prange is given top billing on my cover of _miracle at midway,_ which also gives him authorship for _at dawn we slept_. great books both.

Forrest said something like "get there fastest with the mostest."

Horace said "dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" or "it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. there's a great poem entitled "dulce et decorum" that explains my sentiments on that topic:

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin,
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs
Bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

wilfred owen
 
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