War Quote by J.C. Wylie Download Open image ““we cannot predict with certainty the pattern of the war for which we prepare ourselves.”” — J.C. Wylie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare War
“we cannot predict with certainty the pattern of the war for which we prepare ourselves. We cannot, with reasonable certainty, forecast the time, the… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“mounting a sustained war. Unhappily, these intriguing speculations” — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“That's the one thing you can always depend on; as we're fighting one war, we're always preparing for the next one.” — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“It is vital that we not be made to seem wholly helpless in the opening moments of the war. Once a nation ceases to… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Where our enemies will strike us is predictable: it's where we least expect them to.” — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“Think, too, of the great part that is played by the unpredictable in war: think of it now, before you are actually comitted to… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
“The War is the enemy. It runs itself on the fears of the combatants. It is a machine into which men are put and… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The direct application to today’s problem might well be in determination of the most efficient method of combining cumulative maritime and air strategies with… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“The ultimate determinant in war is the man on the scene with the gun. This man is the final power in war. He is… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“The ultimate objective of all military operations is the destruction of the enemy’s armed forces and his will to fight.”* This sums up the… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“As a hypothetical illustration, let us assume a conflict involving us in Afghanistan.” — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“AT THIS STAGE of the argument we find ourselves with four ideas relating to war and war strategy—that there will be war, that the… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“With respect to strategy as a subject of study, its intellectual framework is not clearly outlined, and its vocabulary is almost nonexistent. These two… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“we cannot predict with certainty the pattern of the war for which we prepare ourselves. We cannot, with reasonable certainty, forecast the time, the… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“the definition of strategy that I prefer: A plan of action designed in order to achieve some end; a purpose together with a system… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“The classical soldier’s beliefs and behavior patterns are all summarized in the central theme of Clausewitz, who tells us that his study of war… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“If we examine the four major limited theories of strategy—the continental, the maritime, the air and the Mao theories—and add to them the broader… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“a general theory of strategy must, I believe, be a theory of power in all its forms, not just a theory of military power.” — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“It should be clearly understood that this term “equilibrium” does not mean a static halt to action, although it conceivably could be this. More… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
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For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“People came to our house from far and wide. Party and military bigwigs, some guy known as the “combat commander,” the village headman, and… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a batter. Love is a war. Love is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The world," said Pavone, "will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read Karl Marx,… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
