Advantages and disadvantages Quote by Carl von Clausewitz

“The balance of the campaign—indeed, the balance of the war—would require learning not only how to fight but how to rule.”

— Rick Atkinson

“If this phrase the 'balance of power' is to always be an argument for war, the pretense for war will never be wanting, and…

— Joe Bright

“A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.”

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

“In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor.”

— James Franck

“war is not so to be avoided, but is only deferred to your disadvantage”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“nothing is more difficult in war than to adhere to a single strategic plan” and to resist the “constant temptation to desert the chosen…

— Rick Atkinson

“If sheer strength is your only contribution to war, you will ultimately be defeated.”

— Justin Weisner Starks

“Perhaps the error in choosing retaliation is that, when we eliminate one enemy, we inevitably create two or more.”

— Tom Omstead

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

— J.C. Wylie

“There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“For political and social as well as for military reasons the preferred way of bringing about victory was the shortest, most direct way, and…

— Carl von Clausewitz

“...or perhaps about acknowledging that life is a delicate balance of great forces, and that good would lose its potency if there was no…

— Anne Fortier