Military history Quote by Howard R. Simpson

“Sin is guerrilla warfare that is deadly. Just when you think you are in control, it seeks to devour you.”

— Ed Welch

“All warfare that is not defensive is criminal.”

— Jane Porter

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

— Thomas Hobbes

“... as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will…

— Edward Gibbon

“To raise an army you need a common enemy”

— Iyathurai Aingaratheepan

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

— J.C. Wylie

“It’s necessary that everyone does his duty and works in his place - devotes himself to constructing a body of fundamental values - against…

— Guillaume Faye

“I do not shoot at my military enemy from hatred or revenge; I fight against him because the paramount interests of my country cannot…

— Henry Wager Halleck

“Unlike the traditional paradigm of warfare, in which the military object is the destruction of enemy battalions, divisions, and corps, in the paradigm of…

— Gordon Chang

“It is up to all of us to fight our unrelenting enemies—complacency, overconfidence and conceit.”

— Alan C. Greenberg

“By discovering the enemy’s dispositions and remaining invisible ourselves, we can keep our forces concentrated, while the enemy’s must be divided.”

— Sun Tzu

“Every war is a murderous struggle between foes. And yet, no army has ever marched into battle believing that the Creator had sided with…

— Terry Goodkind