Strategy Quote by Rick Atkinson

“There were still choices to be made, decisions to reach, actions to take. Many of them. But in one...single declaration of intent, we stepped…

— Diana Gabaldon

“The hard decisions are not the ones you make i in the heat of battle. For harder to make are those involved in speaking…

— Matthew Ridgeway

“A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.”

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

“[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it’s a…

— Adam Gopnik

In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“...in war, the advantages and disadvantages of a single action could only be determined by the final balance.”

— Carl von Clausewitz

“war is not so to be avoided, but is only deferred to your disadvantage”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy.”

— Sun Tzu

“...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“War is too messy to produce easy heroes and villains; there are always brave people on the wrong side, and evil men among the…

— Ben Macintyre

“It is easier to start a war than to end it.”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Should you ever be sent to war, and you don’t agree with its goals, desert.”

— Rolf Dobelli