Isoroku Yamamoto Quotes

The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.

War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.

Victory in war depends on the morale of the masses which are shedding their blood on the battlefield.

He that makes a good war makes a good peace.

Defense is the first act of war.

If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.

The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong.

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.

They won the war but lost the peace.

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose

The American military will never lose the war in Iraqif lost, it will be lost by a lack of political will.

I believe that the politics of intervention and the Kosovo war prompted a fresh resumption of the arms race worldwide.

War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view 'realistically'; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent – war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

Most wars are not won in a single battle.

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.

This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool.

One of the surest ways of forming good combinations in war would be to order movements only after obtaining perfect information of the enemy's proceedings. In fact, how can any man say what he should do himself; if he is ignorant what his adversary is about?

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

One makes war to win, not because it's just.

Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.

At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was wrought, I will not now take time to explain. Upon a clear conviction of duty I resolved to turn that element of strength to account; and I am responsible for it to the American people, to the christian world, to history, and on my final account to God.

The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.