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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

— Ulysses S. Grant

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

— Winston Churchill

In each scene, the writer sets up a situation, which brings a conflict as well as either a small victory or a loss at the close of that particular scene.

— Darin Strauss

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

— Sun Tzu

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

— Alfred M. Gray

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

— Sun Tzu

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

— Victor Davis Hanson

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

— Joseph Heller

✗Opposing Perspectives

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

— Neville Chamberlain

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

— Sun Tzu