Цитаты из книги The Generals

The superior is always right, especially when he is wrong.

The art of victory is learned in defeat.

Simon Bolivar

The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.

Carl von Clausewitz

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Carl von Clausewitz

Survival is the first rule of public life.

Contemporary British military doctrine holds that there are three components of fighting power - the physical, the moral and the conceptual.

One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.

Ferdinand Foch

Without striking fear into everyone, nothing is ever achieved.

Luigi Cadorna

Winston Churchill once observed that the only thing worse than fighting with allies was fighting without any.

It is not the pinnacle of martial achievement to fight and win a hundred battles. It is the pinnacle of martial achievement to win without fighting.

Sun Tzu

Contemporary military thinking broadly recognises three principal levels of war - the strategic, the operational and the tactical.