Military Quote by Jerry Pournelle Download Open image ““Surprise is an event that occurs in the mind of an enemy commander.”” — Jerry Pournelle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Military Psychology Science fiction
“commander may be forgiven for being defeated, but never for being surprised.” — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
“At least we have the element of surprise." "FQ$k surprise, sir. I'd rather have artillery!" - Sergeant Major John Brown (Power Games, Operation Enduring… — Richard Peters Copy Share Image
“Surprise is the practice of accepting the unexpected interruption, and the practice of leaving enough space in the day for something to happen that… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Unexpected ideas are more likely to stick because surprise makes us pay attention and think.” — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
“If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.” — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away. — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best. — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
It's not only possible, but likely that the Nobel Prize in economics will go in alternate years to people who disagree on nearly everything… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Gates has always understood Moore's Law better than anyone else in the industry. If you can make something run at all, get it out… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
“Funny thing about this world,” Adams said carefully. “Legally, a sovereign government can protect its interests pretty well as long as it doesn’t start… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that… — Samuel Adams 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
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
A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying. — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our… — James T. Conway Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
These mercenaries, I swear by God, those who are still in Washington, they have sent their troops to be burned. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
Regardless of how you feel about war and peace those serving military are doing a duty for the rest of us and they're protecting… — Linda Cardellini Copy Share Image
