Chess Quote by Alexey Suetin

The weapons that were once outside sharpening themselves on war are now indoors there, in the fortress, fragile in glass cases; Why is it…

— Margaret Atwood

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Although enemy forces had overrun the mortar and some gun positions, they did not have everything their own way.”

— Michael G. Kramer

Do not fear or misunderstand when the Government say they are looking to our defences. I give you my word that there will be…

— Stanley Baldwin

Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.

— Walid Muallem

“like when it was falling on our position. We learned that mortar rounds come in silently, and their use against us would only become…

— Michael Bilder

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

— Kate Adie

“This defence can only be achieved by killing or disabling the enemy.”

— W.E. Fairbairn

All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so…

— Paul von Hindenburg

For one who has really mastered the way of warfare, his enemy can do nothing to escape death.

— Sun Bin

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

— Adlai Stevenson I

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

— Sun Tzu