Warfare Quotes

Waiting for a battle was the hardest part. Unless you got a dagger in your gut during the battle. Then that was hardest. Or you got through just fine and saw your men dead around you. Then that was.

~ Daniel Abraham

Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.

~ Alex London

It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.

~ Richard Jordan Gatling

...how impossible itis to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option youcouldn’t even imagine.

~ Laurie J. Marks

All warfare is based on deception.

~ Unknown

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.

~ Charles Krauthammer