 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.  1865-1870 - Page 499by Sir Spencer Walpole - 1904Full view - About this book
 | Marshall Everett - United States - 1901 - 568 pages
...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...can, and as often as you can, and keep moving on." These were the tactics he used against Lee. Grant was commissioned Lieutenant-General on March Qth,... | |
 | Anna Elizabeth Foote, Avery Warner Skinner - United States - 1910 - 354 pages
...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...can and as often as you can, and keep moving on." This was just what he did in the Wilderness and in the battles which followed. "I propose to fight... | |
 | John Hill Brinton - 1914 - 378 pages
...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
...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 he never seemed to care about... | |
 | Ohio - 1921 - 1314 pages
...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 of President Lincoln the unbroken... | |
 | Ohio - 1922 - 702 pages
...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 of President Lincoln the unbroken... | |
 | 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...you can and as often as you can and keep moving on." As far as LaFollette is concerned the problem of location is simple. His declarations have the merit... | |
 | 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, through slaughter, costly blunders,... | |
 | Owen Wister - Biografias - 1928 - 298 pages
...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...can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.'' In this compact summary speaks the master mind. But the enemy got at Grant at Shiloh, and a little... | |
 | Military art and science - 1959 - 436 pages
...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...can and as often as you can, and keep moving on." After the war Grant discussed more fully his opinion of the value of doctrine. He conceded that military... | |
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