WNx Sentinel Primer: APPENDIX F / Military Quotes

Some Military Strategy Quotes worth noting

(historical figures)

"Get there first with the most men."

Nathan Bedford Forrest

"The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources."

"So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak. Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing."

"The essential factor of military success is speed, that is taking advantage of others' unpreparedness or lack of foresight, their failure to catch up, going by routes they do not expect, attacking where they are not on guard. This you cannot accomplish with hesitation."
Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"

"The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly than a complex plan can be adapted to it. By the time you have adapted, the target has changed."
General Carl Von Clausewitz

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week"
from Warfighting, the United States Marine Corps

"On s'engage et puis on voit!"
Napoleon Bonaparte ("One jumps into the fray, then figures out what to do next.")

"Those who establish adaptable formations will survive even if they are small. While those who establish unadaptable formations shall perish - even if they are large. So it has been since the beginning of time."
From The Ancient Book of the Huainan Masters (a 2000 year old Chinese war text)

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
Helvetius

Some Military Strategy Quotes worth forgetting

(humorous)

If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.

When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.

It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.

When in doubt empty the magazine.

Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo.

Tracers work both ways.

A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit.

Who *cares* if a laser guided 500 lb bomb is accurate to within 9 feet?

The easy way is always mined.

If your attack is going well, you have walked into an ambush.

Never trust a private with a loaded weapon, or an officer with a map.

If you can't remember, the Claymore is pointed towards you.

Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at.

Make it too tough for the enemy to get in and you can't get out.

Any ship can be a minesweeper... once.

Don't draw fire, it irritates the people around you.

Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher - "Aim towards Enemy"

footnote: more quotes like these can be found athttp://brilliant-talkers.com/com/dave/archives/000103.html

Quotes from Adult Swim having NOTHING to do with

military or strategy or Planetside

(just silly)

‘Oh sweet, sweet nectar. It’s like my pool is tearing ass around my backyard, but its staying still. Still waters run deep.

‘Hey I see you found the mummy there, they don’t die you know, you’re in it for the long haul. You have fun feeding your mummy, for the rest of your life.’

Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

‘Hey, hey, hey, it’s like a koala crapped a rainbow in my brain’

Captain Murphy, Sealab 2021

‘It’s ok if you’re afraid of me zorak, most sissies usually are. Why don’t you go ride your girl bike home and put on a sundress. You’d look, so pretty.’

Dad to Zorak from the Brak Show

‘Hey giant ants with carnage laser throwing eyebeams…. My dad has a speedboat!’

Brak

‘The innoicent shall suffer, big time!’

The mooninite Ignignot from ATHF