No plan survives first contact with the enemy.

Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.

War is merely the continuation of politics by other means.

In war, a victory of sixty percent is the best. Total victory breeds complacency.

-- The 'Tiger of Kai' who transformed his landlocked mountain domain into one of Sengoku Japan's most formidable military powers

攻撃を一点に集約せよ、無駄な事はするな。

-- The revolutionary warlord who dismantled feudal Japan's medieval order and launched the country toward unification

The Empire's fate depends on this battle. Let every man do his utmost duty.

-- The admiral who destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima

To achieve the objective, do not be choosy about methods.

-- The ruthlessly effective architect of modern Japan who built the Meiji state's institutions while his more charismatic peers took the glory

凡兵之道莫過乎一。一者能独往独来。

-- A 4th-century BCE Chinese general and military the

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

-- The Macedonian king who conquered the known world before his thirtieth birthday