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The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurgents: for every dead American, there are probably 10 dead enemy.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

The overriding goal of counterinsurgency is to make friends: You make friends with the people; you isolate the insurgents.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.

For heaven's sake, when you see the enemy attacking, you pick up the pitchfork, and you enlist everybody you see. You don't stand around arguing about who's responsible, or who's going to pay.

You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.