White Sun War Quotes

“The requirement to adapt to unexpected circumstances tests both organization and system, revealing weaknesses that are partly structural and partly functional, whose full potential for disaster may not previously have been noticed.”
― Mick Ryan, White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan

“However, as American scholar Williamson Murray had written, “One of the foremost attributes of military effectiveness must lie in the ability to recognize and adapt to the actual conditions of combat, as well as to the new challenges that war inevitably throws up.” It was probably one of her favorite quotes. She often pondered this idea.”
― Mick Ryan, White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan

“These offensive strike capabilities provide us with operational depth, and a second cordon to keep the Chinese Navy pinned inside the first island chain.”
― Mick Ryan, White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan

“Shit, Lee thought. Fuckers are trying an envelopment of our position by moving along the boundaries between our units. It was a clever move, and one she would ponder more later. She recalled then the old saying that the enemy always attacks at the joins in your maps!”
― Mick Ryan, White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan

“The troops I know were commonplace; They didn’t want the war They fought because their fathers and Their father’s fathers had before. They cursed and killed and wept— God knows they’re easy to deride— But bury me with men like these; They faced the guns and died.”
― Mick Ryan, White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan

“The troops I know were commonplace; They didn’t want the war They fought because their fathers and Their father’s fathers had before. They cursed and killed and wept— God knows they’re easy to deride— But bury me with men like these;”
― Mick Ryan, White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan

“As lethality improved, military units always found one of the best ways to survive was to disperse more and to provide a smaller target for the enemy.”
― Mick Ryan, White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan

“AI was still only as smart as its designers. Like humans, it needed to be checked every now and then.”
― Mick Ryan, White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan

“Hickling had engaged in meditation on arriving back at her room. She had often found this a good way of removing from her thoughts those things that were impacting on her physical or mental wellbeing.”
― Mick Ryan, White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan

“Electromagnetic maneuver warfare had become a staple of Army units over the past several years, and they were good at it. Almost as good as the Russians. At least as good as the PLA.”
― Mick Ryan, White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan

“Wars might start through the calculations of one side, but once begun, miscalculation, fear, and ambiguity reign.”
― Mick Ryan, White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan