 | Owen Wister - Biografias - 1928 - 298 pages
...a 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... | |
 | Military art and science - 1959 - 436 pages
...Jomini. Grant replied that he had never read the master. He then expressed his own theory of strategy: "The an 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." After the war Grant discussed... | |
 | T. Harry Williams - History - 1999 - 172 pages
...guiding authority for so many other Civil War generals. He then expressed his own theory of war: "The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him hard as you can, and keep moving on." It is not true, however, as Grant stated in his memoirs... | |
 | Louis Morton - World War, 1939-1945 - 1962 - 792 pages
...establish a joint staff in the South Pacific. CHAPTER XXV Operations and Plans, Summer 1943 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. GENERAL GRANT The intensive activity that marked the... | |
 | James I. Robertson - United States - 1963 - 72 pages
...a continual hammering was the important factor. "The art of war is simple enough," he once stated. "Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him hard as you can, and keep moving on." Grant's aggression, therefore, became attrition — that... | |
 | Eric Foner, Olivia Mahoney - History - 1990 - 212 pages
...his headquarters in Cih Point, Virginia, in 1864. ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT (1822-1885) ur-p* 1 he 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." Ulysses S. Grant followed his... | |
 | History - 1991 - 630 pages
...Writing in 1891, a former member of Grant's staff recalled the general's famous statement that "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." Although this statement failed to characterize... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - History - 1993 - 658 pages
...our enemy increases. As Ulysses Simpson Grant said, the art of war is simple enough: Find out what 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. Intelligence, fused and timely,... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - History - 1996 - 132 pages
...Grant replied that he had never read the master. He then expressed his own theory of 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 as often as you can, and keep moving on." After the war Grant discussed... | |
 | David Evans - History - 1999 - 686 pages
...Confederacy in two. A plain, straightforward man, Grant had an approach to war that was equally simple: "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."i As the newly commissioned general-in-chief of all... | |
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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. 
