Proverbs and Maxims

"A Guru is one who cannot advance [improve] in skill level."

-<PA>Falcon_Panther

"To win a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence; the highest excellence is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

-SunTzu

"One is weak because he makes preparations against others; he has strength because he makes others prepare against him."

-SunTzu

"First, learn how to use this [head], then I'll teach you to use this [sword]."

-Braveheart

"Frederick II understood the moral limitations of his conscripted army when he advocated defending in front of a river line in order to prevent desertions."

-Robert Leonhard

"Warfare is the art of deceit."

-Sun Tzu

"There is a difference between not knowing anything and understanding that you don't know."

-Tom Clancy

"That old lady might be a kung fu expert; and instead of little Mac, that baby carriage might hold little Mac-10. If you were prepared for the worst, then anything less was a gift."

-Steve Perry

"My karma ran over my dogma."

-Unknown (bumper sticker)

 "Electronic intelligence, valuable though it is in its own way, serves to augment the daunting volume of information which is directed at headquarters from satellite and aerial reconnaissance, intelligence-gathering ships, optical observation, special forces, armoured reconnaissance teams, and the interrogation of prisoners. Nowadays the commander is confronted with too much information, rather than too little, and it is his informed judgement which ultimately decides what is relevant and important."

-Hugh Farringdon

"I like a man who grins when he fights."

-Winston Churchill

"To lift an autumn hair is no mark of strength; to see the sun and moon is no mark of clear-sightedness; to hear a thunder clap is no mark of keen hearing. He whom the ancients called an expert in battle gained victory where victory was easily gained. Thus, the battleof the expert is never an exceptional victory, nor does it win him reputation for wisdom or credit for courage. His victories in battle are already won."

-SunTzu

"Let's go pick a fight."

-PA_Rondt_Panther

"It is better to give [attack] than to receive [defend]."

-Old Martial Arts Saying

"...never stop researching!"

-<PA> Shriker

"Tactics without strategy are dangerous....The wrong battles, whether won or lost, occupy valuable units that might be better used elsewhere and waste good men. Generals, after all, are former lieutenants. But there must be more to being a general than old age....There must be a lifetime of study....That we can take a tactician, a battalion commander, for instance, and "add water" by sending him to a war college and we have-viola!-a general, is a delusion."

-Col. Michael D. Wyly, USMC

"It's not the weapon, it's the brain behind the weapon that's dangerous."

-<PA> Hawk "Birds of Prey"

"The difference between the professional and the conscript-based army is that the former half-train their officers and then give them to a highly-trained sergeant to finish off officer training. The latter, lacking in long-service sergeants, train their officers to the point where they can train the sergeants."

-British Army Review

"The best strategy is always be very strong."

-Clausewitz

:"Don't upset the PA when he/she isn't on your team."

-Anonymous

"When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing."

-Sun Tzu

"Got Flare?"

-<PA> Hawk "Birds of Prey"

"That stickyed Flare?"

-<PA>Falcon_Panther

"Wimp"

-PA_Rondt_Panther

"Weak and strong, short and long, are mixed together in their use."

-Sun Tzu

"Units in combat are often faced with unexpected opportunities."

-ROTCM 145-60 (1964)

"Battles are won by slaughter and manoeuvre. The greater the general, the more he contributes in manoeuvre, the less he demands in slaughter."

-Winston Churchill

"...one becomes a beginner after one thousand days of trainning and an expert after ten thousand days of practice. Train more than you sleep...'If you practice 2 days a week, you're only going to be good two days a week.'"

-Christopher "Tiger" Thompson

"He who knows neither the enemy nor himself, will lose every battle. He who knows the enemy but not himself, will win one and lose one hundred. He who knows himself but not the enemy, will win one and lose one. He who knows both himself and the enemy, will win every battle."

-Sun Tzu

"Experience is something you get after you need it."

-Jason Damron

"In joining battle, seek the quick victory. If battle is protracted, your weapons will be blunted and your troops demoralized. If you lay siege to a walled city, you exhaust your strength. If your armies are kept in the field for a long time, your national reserves will not suffice."

-Sun Tzu