Strategic Advantage Quotes

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

If I get ‘em by the short and curlies, the hearts and minds will follow.

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.

He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

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

The colored population is the great available and yet, unavailed of, force for restoring the Union. The bare sight of fifty thousand armed, and drilled black soldiers on the bank of the Mississippi, would end the rebellion at once.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

We ought to begin a naval power, if we mean to carry on our own commerce. Can we begin it on a more honorable occasion or with a weaker foe?

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue peace ... Don't ever defend. Always attack.

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

Never let a good crisis go to waste

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.

When your enemies are fighting one another, don’t support one or the other. Weaken both.

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

A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb

It is fine that General MacArthur is arrogant and stubborn. An arrogant and stubborn enemy is easier to defeat.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

If a nuclear power is willing to be bolder than another, it can take limited conventional actions without fear of major pushback.

One thing is certain: wherever the enemy lands, if once we can get to grips with him on the Continent, where we are not dependent on supplies from overseas, that ought to be, and will be, all right with us.

When the enemy starts to collapse you must pursue him without the chance of letting go. If you fail to take advantage of your enemies collapse, they may recover.

The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.

He who strikes first can defeat the enemy. He who strikes last will be beaten