Act Quote by Noam Chomsky

Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.

— Walid Muallem

Sieges weathered, fight together, friends forever.

— Maria V. Snyder

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

— Ludwig von Mises

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

— George Washington

He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's…

— Sun Tzu

“When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardour will be damped.…

— Sun Tzu

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

— Frank Herbert

For siege works against bold and venturesome men should be constructed on one plan, on another against cautious men, and on still another against…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

— Mark Lawrence

“The general, unable to control his irritation, will launch his men to the assault like swarming ants, with the result that one-third of his…

— Sun Tzu

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Warfare is now an interlocking system of actions—political, economic, psychological, military—that aims at the overthrow of the established authority in a country and its…

— Roger Trinquier