“I do not criticize the amateur strategist. On the contrary, I believe deeply that strategy is everybody’s business. Too many lives are at stake for us not to recognize strategy as a legitimate and important public concern. But what I… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“The strategist should take up specific situations only after the requirement for provision of the spectrum of concepts has been met, and then only for one of two reasons. The first is for the derivation of logistic and material needs.” — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“The direct application to today’s problem might well be in determination of the most efficient method of combining cumulative maritime and air strategies with… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“The ultimate determinant in war is the man on the scene with the gun. This man is the final power in war. He is… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“The ultimate objective of all military operations is the destruction of the enemy’s armed forces and his will to fight.”* This sums up the… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“we cannot predict with certainty the pattern of the war for which we prepare ourselves.” — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“As a hypothetical illustration, let us assume a conflict involving us in Afghanistan.” — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“AT THIS STAGE of the argument we find ourselves with four ideas relating to war and war strategy—that there will be war, that the… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“With respect to strategy as a subject of study, its intellectual framework is not clearly outlined, and its vocabulary is almost nonexistent. These two… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“we cannot predict with certainty the pattern of the war for which we prepare ourselves. We cannot, with reasonable certainty, forecast the time, the… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“the definition of strategy that I prefer: A plan of action designed in order to achieve some end; a purpose together with a system… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“The classical soldier’s beliefs and behavior patterns are all summarized in the central theme of Clausewitz, who tells us that his study of war… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“If we examine the four major limited theories of strategy—the continental, the maritime, the air and the Mao theories—and add to them the broader… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“a general theory of strategy must, I believe, be a theory of power in all its forms, not just a theory of military power.” — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“It should be clearly understood that this term “equilibrium” does not mean a static halt to action, although it conceivably could be this. More… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“the soldier cannot function alone. His flanks are bare, his rear is vulnerable, and he looks aloft with a cautious eye. He needs the… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“There are not many other such places where the maritime element of our national strength cannot be applied, but where this is true, where… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
