military tactics quotes

General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

You have to make sure you know why you are going to war and then use decisive force to end it as soon as possible.

It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

A siege is an act of war.