Strategy Quote by Robin de Ruiter

“Always remember that, in a modern environment, wars last longer and kill more people than is typically planned.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“That's the one thing you can always depend on; as we're fighting one war, we're always preparing for the next one.”

— Max Brooks

“Whatever begun with planning, ends in a victory.”

— Amit Kalantri

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.”

— George S. Patton Jr

“Wars today seem to occur at a more precise point in time but deep down they are permanent.”

— Bernardo Carvalho

“War will find us whether we are ready or not.”

— Winston Churchill

“Preparing for war, as was well known in other lands but perhaps not then in that one, is usually a self-fulfilling precaution.”

— Dave Duncan

“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

“nothing is more difficult in war than to adhere to a single strategic plan” and to resist the “constant temptation to desert the chosen…

— Rick Atkinson

“Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence.”

— Thomas C. Schelling

“The imperative of war is to kill, and thus all wars are exercises in sanctioned murder.”

— Joseph E. Persico

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

— Sun Tzu