Battlefield Strategy Quotes

War is the great auditor of military institutions.

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 military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last.

Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter.

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.

One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it.

We must ensure that our troops are ready when called upon, that they are fully capable of fighting, and that they must win every war

In counterinsurgency operations, the human terrain is the decisive terrain.

My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.

We need to get serious about defeating ISIS; we just aren't serious about it yet. I would be very serious about getting it done. I know how to do it. We need to take the fight to them on the battlefield in a more serious way.

In Afghanistan and Iraq we would often get cowardly fire and rounds hitting us from the sides but we just hunker down and keep going, we don't turn the mission around.

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.

On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.

Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.

The military is not a social experiment. The purpose of the military is kill people and break things.

The bottom line is that Daesh's defeat requires not just hammering them on the battlefield but, simultaneously, revived political reconciliation with Sunnis.