Fredrik Bajer Quotes

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.

As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on tactics and strategy. The mission of the infantry is to 'close with, and destroy, the enemy.' Our job, in a direct way, is to fight and win wars.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

History has been the history of warfare.

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.

... merely another weapon.

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

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

From the earliest dawnings of policy to this day, the invention of men has been sharpening and improving the mystery of murder, from the first rude essays of clubs and stones, to the present perfection of gunnery, cannoneering, bombarding, mining, and all those species of artificial, learned, and refined cruelty, in which we are now so expert, and which make a principal part of what politicians have taught us to believe is our principal glory.

When you’ve got enough firepower, you win wars.

The Artillery Barrage: The last reasoning of Kings.

In war, science has proven itself an evil genius; it has made war more terrible than it ever was before. Man used to be content to slaughter his fellow men on a single plane---the earth's surface. Science has taught him to go down into the water and shoot up from below and to go up into the clouds and shoot down from above, thus making the battlefield three times a bloody as it was before

To keep providing our soldiers, sailors and Marines with 21st-century firepower, Picatinny needs 21st-century laboratories and research and development facilities.

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

I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.

Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a strategy, an overall concept, and there are tactics along the way…Tradition would say I was a 'child of Mars.'

By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

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

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