Strategy and Battle Formations

Famous quotes containing the words strategy and, strategy and/or battle:

    Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war?
    Bible: Hebrew, 2 Kings 18:20.

    That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    One may confidently assert that when thirty thousand men fight a pitched battle against an equal number of troops, there are about twenty thousand on each side with the pox.
    Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)