Famous military aphorisms (for propaganda purposes)

Just as there are various tools in the surgeon's operating box, military means is only one of the means to realize the grand strategy.

-liddell hart (UK)

Make the enemy lose balance and position, which is the real purpose of strategy; As a result, the enemy either collapsed on its own or was easily defeated by me in the battle.

-liddell hart (UK)

Sudden is the essence of strategy.

-liddell hart

Strategically speaking, the longest detour is often the shortest path to achieve the goal.

-liddell hart (UK)

● Tactics are things. In a word, they are the accumulation of military experience for centuries.

-DeJiBo (France)

This is an eternal axiom in war. Ensure your flank and rear, and try to bypass the flank and rear of the enemy.

-Frederick (Germany)

The people's war must be like a cloud, which will not condense into the core of resistance anywhere.

-clausewitz (Germany)

Only when the possibility of winning is very high can a decisive battle be held.

-Engels (Germany)

Tactics is the art of using troops at decision-making points, and its purpose is to make troops play a decisive role in the timing and place of decision-making

-jomini (Switzerland)

● Any tactics are only applicable to a certain historical stage; If weapons are improved and technology makes new progress, the form of military organization and military command methods will also change.

-Fu Longzhi (Su)

Every situation has its own special strategy.

-Andre Bauffre (USA)

● If the strategy is too complicated, it will inevitably fail.

-Saigō Takamori (Japan)

As long as you don't fail, you win. This is the key for the people's war strategy to defeat the powerful military forces of advanced countries.

-Koshanai Macro (Japan)

If you fight, you can surround it with ten, attack it with five, and divide it many times. The enemy can fight it, escape it with few people, and avoid it if there is no one.

-Sun Wu (Spring and Autumn Period)

● Try to be kind to people nearby, treat work with fear and satisfy hunger.

-Sun Wu (Spring and Autumn Period)

● First a virgin, the enemy opened an account, then a rabbit, and the enemy could not refuse.

-Sun Wu (Spring and Autumn Period)

Do what you want and do what you don't expect.

-Sun Wu (Spring and Autumn Period)

● The war situation is just odd and positive, and the change of odd and positive can't win poverty.

-Sun Wu (Spring and Autumn Period)

Those who fight, through the right combination, win the surprise. Therefore, the good, amazing, infinite as heaven and earth, inexhaustible as mountains and rivers.

-Sun Wu (Spring and Autumn Period)

● A trip to the water, avoiding high; The shape of a soldier evades reality and attacks emptiness.

-Sun Wu (Spring and Autumn Period)

● When using troops, it is necessary to judge the enemy's actual situation and become dangerous.

-Wu Qi (Warring States Period)

Soldiers are the first, Indiana Jones is the last. The enemy was defeated first or later.

-Liao Wei (Warring States Period)

● Those who make good use of soldiers do not strike long with short strokes, but with long strokes.

-Sima Qian (Han)

When fighting with others, don't be arrogant, pat them on the back, and you won't win.

—— Ban Gu (Han)

● There is something strange in the soldiers, and it is like an endless ring.

-Su Zhe (Song)

The basis of fighting is to be able to gather and disperse.

-Shi Yang (Song)

When fighting the enemy, you must be careful. If you see the profit, you will act, but if you don't see the profit, you will stop. Be careful not to take it lightly.

—— Liu Ji (Ming)

● Join forces and divide our forces to win.

-Xuan Jie (Ming)

● There are no surprises. Although the overall situation is not strong, there is no way to win. There is nothing strange except truth. Although it is sharp and unscrupulous, it is difficult to control it.

-He (Ming)

● Those who make good use of soldiers attack what they love and what the enemy follows; If you crush its emptiness, the enemy will follow; If there are many sides, the enemy will split; There is no doubt that the enemy is sure.

-Ma (Qing)

● Take the whole army as the first to defeat the enemy, not the land and the city.

-Cai E

● The enemy advances and I retreat; When the enemy is stationed, I disturb; When the enemy is tired, I fight; When the enemy retreated, I pursued.

-Mao Zedong (middle)

● Must win; Must take care of the whole campaign plan; We must pay attention to the next strategic stage: these are three principles that cannot be forgotten at the beginning of the counter-offensive, that is, when fighting the first battle.

-Mao Zedong (middle)

Another necessary condition for a weak army to confront a strong army is to pick the weak and fight them.

-Mao Zedong (middle)

● Fight scattered and isolated enemies first, and then concentrate powerful enemies.

-Mao Zedong (middle)

● Attack is the basic form of guerrilla warfare.

-Mao Zedong (middle)

The significance of encirclement and circuitous tactics is the same as that of concentrating superior forces. Without the latter, there is no former.

-Mao Zedong (middle)

● For people, it is better to break one finger than to hurt its ten fingers; For the enemy, it is better to destroy one division than to defeat ten.

-Mao Zedong (middle)

Only a decisive battle can solve the problem of who wins and who loses between the two armies.

-Mao Zedong (middle)

● The dead-end tactics are very bad. The tactics of horses are better than those of cows, and the tactics of wolves are better than those of horses.

-Liu Bocheng (middle)

Strategically, we are strong, but we are weak in campaigns and tactics.

-Liu Bocheng (middle)