War Quote by C.J. Chivers

As a result of the cold, the machine-guns were no longer able to fire...the result of all this was a panic...The battle worthiness of…

— Heinz Guderian

No blame can be attached to the army for its failure to accomplish what was projected by me... I alone am to blame, in…

— Robert E. Lee

We became consumed with preparing to go on a deployment, going on the deployment, coming back, and getting ready to go again. We stopped…

— Martin Dempsey

“the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation”

— Sun Tzu

“Whenever a regular army finds itself engaged upon hostilities against irregular forces, or forces which in their armament, their organization, and their discipline are…

— Charles Edward Callwell

“During the briefings their current hyper-conservative rules of engagement had been drilled into them. “And if you screw up,” the briefers added, “they will…

— Brandon Webb

Whenever I spoke with anybody who said they did not have a problem in the military it was because their commander treated them well.…

— Amy Ziering

“Managerial abilities, bureaucratic skills, technical expertise, and political talent are all necessary, but they can be applied only to goals that have already been…

— Edward Luttwak

“Only the Army conducts an annual assessment, and they appear to do relatively little to analyze the problem, contributions to the problem, and potential…

— Carter F. Smith

“Meanwhile, in another example of the ineffectiveness of high altitude level bombing at sea, Hornet’s planes had to fly through a curtain of bombs…

— Charles River Editors

Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave…

— Orlando Figes

“increasingly, they did not really know each other. The constant toll of death and injury, in addition to the policy of rotating marines out…

— Mark Bowden