War Winning Quotes

I don’t think our troops ought to be used for what’s called nation-building. I think our troops ought to be used to fight and win war.

When you’ve got enough firepower, you win wars.

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.

Reducing military presence has never in history won a war.

The purpose of our military is to field the finest troops possible to defend our nation and win wars.

We think intelligence is important to win wars. Wars are not won by intelligence. They’re won by the blood, treasure, courage of the young men that we put in the field …. What intelligence really does when it is working well is to help to avoid war.

There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried. . . and we shall see.

President Bush said the other day the war is not about timetables. It's about winning. Hey, it worked in Florida.

The only plan the Administration seems to have for winning the war is that there is no plan and no schedule for our troops to come home and get out of harm's way.

The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.

President-elect Trump wants to win them if you're going to be involved in a war. I don't think he wants to be involved in war, but when we are, he wants to win.

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

We’re not going to win this war through polling.

To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of operation and nullify their chances of winning the war.

The possibility of the United States winning the war and losing the peace is real and serious

One might almost say, to adapt von Clausewitz, that modern warfare is PR by other means. And war-winning strategies mean that modern armies most stop treating their communications operations as secondary assignments or (as still too often happens) dumping grounds for officers who have failed at everything else - but as missions absolutely essential to success.

An army that fought and won a war decisively finds it even more difficult to undergo change.

Damn it all, the business of an army is to win the way, not quibble around with a lot of cheap buying. Hell and Marih! We weren't trying to keep a set of books, we were trying to win a war.