Bashir Assad Quotes

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

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

All warfare is based on deception.

Wars are fought for political considerations. Military victory alone is never enough

In political warfare, you do not fight to prevail in an argument, but to destroy the enemy's fighting ability.

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 intellectual development of man, far from having gotten men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, brought them to a refinement always more perfected in the art of killing. They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of "science".

A military leader should always understand, of all human endeavors... the one that's the most unpredictable and the most costly is warfare.

In order to prosecute war, you have to take some risk.

Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.

War makes early risers of us all.

In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.

In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

War is simple, direct, and ruthless.

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

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

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

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.

That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.

Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.

I don't think we should ever tell our enemy what our tactics are.

There is no working middle course in wartime.