MS Dhoni Quotes

It is with artillery that war is made.

If you don't understand weapons you don't understand fighting. If you don't understand fighting you don't understand war. If you don't understand war you don't understand history. And if you don't understand history you might as well live with your head in a sack.

War is the science of destruction.

The primary function of war has not within storage time in which he really changed by the advent of new weapons. The unchanging principle of combat is to inflict on the enemy the maximum amount of wounds and death in a minimum of time and as cheaply as possible.

We send them the instruments [arms] and they pull the trigger.

God will so assist us, that if you dare stand but to discharge your pieces, the very smoake will bee sufficient to affright them… They are naked and cowardly ... people, who dare not stand the presenting of a staffe ... or peece, nor an uncharged peece in the hands of a woman.

The Army I grew up in was focused on high-intensity conflict against a peer competitor called the Soviet Union.

I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi)

War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.

Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.

The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm.

In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.

A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.

Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it.

Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.

Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.