Battle Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively.

— David Petraeus

“No Senior military commander can for years on end expect his soldiers to lay down their lives for victory and then precipitate defeat by…

— Erich von Manstein

And there's this talk that we're asking soldiers to make the greatest sacrifice, but the reality is that civilians bear the burden of war…

— Michael Hastings

Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.

— Lord Randolph Churchill

It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

— Ferdinand Foch

“Few commanders in this war could function without arriving at a sensibility in which thousands of dead and wounded men could be waved away…

— Rick Atkinson

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

— Ferdinand Foch

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

— John O. Brennan

Someone will always want to mobilize Death on a massive scale for economic Domination or revenge. And the task, taken As a task, appeals…

— Robert Hass

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last…

— Barbara W Tuchman

“It's not the generals, it's the civilians who authorise and organise the worst war crimes.”

— Noam Chomsky

“We are never prepared for so many to die. So you understand? No one is. We expect some chosen few. We expect an occasional…

— Michael Shaara