 | Owen Wister - 1900 - 184 pages
...tinge of impatience, that he had read Jomini without much attention ; and then he added : "The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on." In this compact summary speaks... | |
 | Marshall Everett - United States - 1901 - 568 pages
...comprehension, but it took a strong man to live up to it. Writing to a friend in 1863, he said: "The art of war is simple enough. "Find out where your enemy is. "Get at him as soon as you can. "Strike at him as hard as you can, and as often as you can, and keep moving on." These were the tactics he... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - Great Britain - 1904 - 556 pages
...armies of the United States to victory, had said the same thing : ' The art of war is simply this : find out where your enemy is ; get at him as soon as you can ; strike at him as hard as you can, and as often as you can ; and keep moving on-'6 The temperament of the French... | |
 | Anna Elizabeth Foote, Avery Warner Skinner - United States - 1910 - 350 pages
...little man hung on with a bulldog grip. He never knew when he was beaten. Grant once said, "The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on." This was just what he did in... | |
 | John Hill Brinton - Surgeons - 1914 - 374 pages
...River, asking him what he thought of Jomini. "Doctor," he said, "I have never read it carefully; the art of war is simple enough; find out where your enemy is, get at him as soon as you can, and strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on." When I asked him at Fort Donelson what was... | |
 | Louis Arthur Coolidge - 1917 - 642 pages
...him of Jomini, that he had never paid much attention to that authority on military strategy. "The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can, and keep moving on." In his meager library there were no books on war, and... | |
 | Ohio - 1921 - 1314 pages
...more upon action than he did upon Jomini ; his theory of warfare he summarized as follows: 'The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.' "Grant maintained from the hour he came to the notice... | |
 | Ohio - 1922 - 702 pages
...more upon action than he did upon Jomini ; his theory of warfare he summarized as follows: 'The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.' "Grant maintained from the hour he came to the notice... | |
 | James Morgan - Presidents - 1924 - 386 pages
...armies or with fleets. Instinct is the true strategist. Grant's art of war was simplicity itself : "Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can, and keep moving on." That is it : Grant kept moving on, sometimes, alas,... | |
 | George Wharton Pepper - United States - 1924 - 342 pages
...determined where the enemy is. General Grant's homely definition of grand strategy is applicable here: "Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can, strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can and keep moving on." As far as LaFollette is concerned... | |
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on. 
