Quotes about battlefield management

Chuck Hagel

I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

Jim Mattis

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn't waste their lives because I didn't have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

Napoleon Bonaparte

He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.

Sun Tzu

On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and flags. Gongs and drums, banners and flags, are means whereby the ears and eyes of the host may be focused on one particular point.

Charles de Gaulle

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

Ulysses S. Grant

Two commanders on the same field are always one too many.

Yazid III

Keep no troops on the field too long

Yazid ibn al-Walid ibn 'Abd al-Malik. His concerns were twofold. First, it was difficult to maintain morale of troops in the field for a long period of time. But for him the more important reason was the cost. He cut the military budget by 10 percent which outraged the “hardliners”. It was expensive to keep troops in the field.

Oliver North

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

battlefield management Quotes