Audre Lorde Quotes

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.

Anyone that goes to battle goes to battle knowing the mindset and tactics of their enemies.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

I had my own battle tactics.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

The Commonwealth of Venice in their armoury have this inscription, "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war.

In cases of defense, it is best to weigh the enemy more than he seems.

Armchair generals assume that nations decide on their foreign policy objectives and then subordinate everything else to achieving them. Life is more complicated. Threats, opportunities and risks are always uncertain, but the economic costs of maximum preparedness are definite.

The Artillery Barrage: The last reasoning of Kings.

The search for national security is today a source for urban insecurity.

Moscow believes that using force constitutes strategic defense.

Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.

In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now.

A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal.

Only great and general battles can produce great results

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

The prevent defense prevents victory.

Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.

Paris must either not fall into the hands of the enemy or the enemy must find it only a wasteland.

Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field, and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.

We are a nation at war. This is also a time for hard choices. It's about ensuring that we are able to prevail in the conflicts in which we are now engaged. But it's also about being able to be strong and disciplined in applying our nation's limited resources to defending America.

The object of war is to survive it.

I say when you get into a war, you should win as quick as you can, because your losses become a function of the duration of the war. I believe when you get in a war, get everything you need and win it.

I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.