To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.
You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.
By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line.
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large.
What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.
Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place.
The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed.
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