J.C. Wylie

“the soldier, few men realize, is the only one of the military men who cannot do his part of the war alone.”

— J.C. Wylie

“The literature of war and its strategies is poverty-stricken. Of all the men who have written on the subject of war, I…

— J.C. Wylie

“Guerrilla war is the war of the broad masses of an economically backward country standing up against a powerfully equipped and well…

— J.C. Wylie

“The bibles (in English translation) are Mao Tse-Tung on Guerrilla Warfare by Brigadier General Samuel B. Griffith, USMC (Ret), which contains General…

— J.C. Wylie

“to any soldier, what he does is tactical and what his next senior does is strategic.”

— J.C. Wylie

“The requirement is for a full bag of strategic concepts that will always provide, before and during war, not only a strategy…

— J.C. Wylie

“The “war is a continuation of policy” idea is the basis of a great deal of coordinated planning, with the foreign offices…

— J.C. Wylie

“The second point is that there is nothing “secret” about strategy per se. The unwarranted but persistent notion that it is secret…

— J.C. Wylie

“the problem is how do we oppose a cumulative strategy with a sequential strategy? Or must we, ourselves, develop some sort of…

— J.C. Wylie

“The second reason for which the military mind addresses itself to specific assumed situations is on the occasions when there may in…

— J.C. Wylie

“As we have noted before, it may well be necessary to defeat the enemy army. It may even be necessary to defeat…

— J.C. Wylie

“it is interesting to note that, in its degree of sophistication, the Liddell Hart theory is much more receptive to the concepts…

— J.C. Wylie

“The strategist should take up specific situations only after the requirement for provision of the spectrum of concepts has been met, and…

— J.C. Wylie

“The incomplete vocabulary of strategy as an intellectual discipline limits the communication of the central concept of indirectness. This concept, as it…

— J.C. Wylie

“The most important part of this article was Wylie’s development of the idea that the purpose of sea power is to project…

— J.C. Wylie