Offensive Action Quotes

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

The whole key to a fight is throwing the first punch.

Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

The framers understood that the president, as the head of our armed forces, must defend the nation from imminent threat. But when the mission shifts from defense to offense, congressional approval is essential.

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising.

In my judgment, the only way to deal with terrorists is to stay on the offensive, is to find them and bring them to justice before they hurt us again.

Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action.

When you decide to attack, keep calm and dash in quickly, forestalling the enemy...attack with a feeling of constantly crushing the enemy, from first to last.

We want to make the insurgents come to us. Make them be the aggressors. What I want to do is get on the inside looking out - instead of being on the outside looking in.

This policy of containment is not a winning strategy. We need a policy to defeat and destroy ISIS once and for all.

Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move.... To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example

We cannot defeat these men by shooting at them; we must rush them. Let my men through sir.

We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas.

Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.

When it does not click offensively, it is very easy to get down defensively.

A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson.

It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action

Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.

I don't want to get any messages saying, "I am holding my position." We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the Germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls. We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time.

British Forces should be in a position to give back in a ten fold measure any attack that the Germans may attempt.

I had to choose: Either leave the country, where it's become dangerous for me, or go on the offensive.

We’re going to bomb this because it’s the Yugoslav department of military procurement.

What we have to do is go on the offensive. [The science on climate change] has been maligned and misinterpreted, and we need to fight back... [P]eople [need to] stop being moved by these talk show [hosts] and start looking for the facts themselves.