Lee Child Quotes

Hit hard, hit fast and hit often

There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.

We realize that wars are never won on the defensive. We must take the battle to the enemy

I don't want to get any messages saying, "I am holding my position." We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the Germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls. We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time.

One active campaign, a smart action, and burning two or three their towns, will set everything to rights.

Our enemies should take note. Arial attacks, stupendous in their mass effect, surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination from within, the murder of leading men, overwhelming attacks on all weak points in the enemies defense, sudden attacks, all in the same second without regard for reserves or losses.

Violence of action, as we call it in the Spec Ops community, will often change the odds in your favor.

We bring the fight to the enemy so that they don't bring it to us.

The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.

In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.

Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.

We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted.

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.

How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged.

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground his teeth and murmured, 'No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides', and when someone deplored the necessity of destroying so many brave men, he exclaimed: 'No, shoot them all, I do not wish them to be brave.'

Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision.

Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

If the enemy leaves a door open, you must rush in.

When you look at the beginning of the actual war, it's not hard to recognize that the Pakistanis were the ones to attack.

An apple a day keeps anyone away, if you throw it hard enough.

War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down.

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission.