Guerrilla Tactics Quotes

You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.

Our enemies should take note. Arial attacks, stupendous in their mass effect, surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination from within, the murder of leading men, overwhelming attacks on all weak points in the enemies defense, sudden attacks, all in the same second without regard for reserves or losses.

The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

We cannot fight air strikes with explosives.

Irregular war is far more intellectual than a bayonet charge.

This is a totally different war than any we've ever fought before.

The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurgents: for every dead American, there are probably 10 dead enemy.

The terrorists' only rules? That there are no rules, and this gives them a major advantage.

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

Direct action means resort to non-constitutional methods that can take any form which many suit the conditions under which we live. We cannot eliminate any methods.

Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.

Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.

Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders, he was able to indulge in his hobbies... and he was making occasional video tapes and audio tapes to the wider world.

There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war.

In general, I think it's an advantage politically to keep people guessing.

There is a direct correlation between what al Qaeda says and what it does. And the one thing that has been the gold standard of correlation has been bin Laden's 1995 - or was it 1996? - pledge that every attack is going to be more powerful than the last. If you go back to the first attack in Yemen in 1992 and chart it out, every attack has been more powerful, more destructive than the last one.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

War has been declared on us, where the enemy is unseen and there is no front.

I think the scale of the conflict [in Afghanistan] has dramatically changed in 2003. You're now facing a much more motivated, well-supported enemy. I don't see any quick end to this thing.

Guerrilla troops, especially when supported by much of the population, [can] hold a colonial army at bay.