Arcs Quote by B. H. Liddell Hart

“Conservative estimates place the Persian casualties at some two thousand in less than twenty minutes, victims of the unforgiving geometry of the battlefield. Because…

— William Rosen

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

— Joseph Stalin

Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not…

— Aleksandr Vasilevsky

“A few days later, from a wall along the river, Martha Gellhorn watched the Soviet troops move on. ‘The army came in like a…

— Geert Mak

The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper…

— Vladimir Kramnik

In 1942, the Germans were running out of fuel. They were advancing so fast across the grasslands, the hot grasslands of south Russia, and…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that…

— Gerd von Rundstedt

The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“we concentrate our army into an enormous fist. The very fact that such a fist exists will prevent the enemy from dispersing his forces…

— Robert Edwards

“the French First Army near Speyer and Strasbourg. The preparations were pitifully inadequate and the losses heavy, but the objective, which was political and…

— Alexander McKee

“The strategic level is concerned with the use of military force to achieve national objectives. In the new American style of war, it has…

— Robert Scales

After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a nimble fighting…

— Charles Duhigg