“In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.”

“In war, luck is half in everything.”

“Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.”

“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”

“In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.”

“As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.”

“The war with Japan had been enacted in the game rooms at the War College by so many people and in so many different ways that nothing that happened during the war was a surprise—absolutely nothing except the kamikaze tactics toward the end of the war. We had not visualized these.”

“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”

“It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die — and the difference is just an eyelash.”

“The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.”