Quotes about Strategy
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can't we study peace?
— Audrey Hepburn
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
— John F. Kennedy
Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
— John F. Kennedy
Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.
— Winston Churchill
To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.
— Ernest Hemingway
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
— Ben Stein