Strategy Quote by Patrick Robinson

“Vice-Admiral Scheer’s own confidential report to Wilhelm II. Here he made the tendentious, and highly questionable, assertion that “even the most successful outcome of…

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

“One matter has been settled by this war which my association with the Navy has led me to be particularly interested in. The U-boat…

— Albertus Wright Catlin

“a Marine company or two had less tactical value than a cruiser, let alone a battleship.”

— C.J. Carella

“If an enemy ship cannot be taken over by our own crews, it must be sunk! There is to be no deviation from that!”

— Michael G. Kramer

I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy as the…

— William Howard Taft

“no man who rises to command of a United States naval ship can possibly be a coward. And”

— Herman Wouk

“Sergeant Skirata said that civvies didn't have a clue, and that it was alright for them to have lofty ideas about peace and freedom…

— Karen Traviss

“Our whole strategy must be to prevent the Allies from securing a beachhead, because once they achieve that, the battle is lost…perhaps even the…

— Ken Follett

“U-boats were on the run. Radar, sonar, aircraft, and new tactics by American and British destroyers had turned predators into prey. The future offered…

— Tom Young

“n the Navy, an admiral told me once that you take the information you have and make the best decision you know how. Sometimes…

— Andrew Grey

The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans…

— Rick Atkinson

“of making the Grand Fleet turn away and open the range. Admiral Scheer claims that putting the van of his fleet again into action…

— Thomas Goddard Frothingham