Malcolm X Quotes

Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.

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.

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass if we cannot destroy them.

Instead of stealing upon each other and taking every advantage to kill the enemy and save their own people, as we do, they [whites] march out, in open daylight, and fight, regardless of the number of warriors they may loose!

The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best fighting force the world had ever known, they were getting their asses kicked by illiterate peasants who made bombs out of manure and wood.

God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones.

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them.

In the war, you lose areas, but you recapture another area. So, it is difficult to tell whether you are losing or gaining or it was a standstill. No-one has this answer.

And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through streets still echoing with trade,Walk grave and thoughtful men,Whose hands may one day wield the patriot's bladeAs lightly as the pen.

I will make certain that our military is the best in the world in both cyber offense and defense and in every other way, by the way. Every other way.

Our military superiority is so great - it's far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in 100 hours after we bombed for 43 days. And so now they can bomb for a couple of days and then just roll into Baghdad... The odds are there's going to be a war and it's going to be not for very long.

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

It is narual for enemy to attack on the weaker side of the adversary.

Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.

I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.

The campaign in Iraq illustrates the continuing progress of military technology and tactics, but if there is a single overriding lesson it must be this: American military power, especially when buttressed by Britain's, is virtually unchallengeable today. Take us on? Don't try! And that's not hubris, it's just plain fact.

If we had these rockets in 1939, we should never have had this war.

On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war.

Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.

The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other.

When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.