Jack Reacher's Rules

“Sooner or later, you’ve got to engage the enemy’s main force. You don’t win the war unless you do that. You take it on and you destroy it.”

In order to win, you must be prepared to lose.

Don’t worry about why it went wrong. Just damn well put it right.

Know how to deceive the enemy, and that sooner or later they have to be fought head-on.

If you attack you have to keep on and on attacking until the enemy is run off its feet and the war is won.

Everything in war is improvisation.

Try to look unimportant. They may be low on ammo.

Never retreat, just advance in the opposite direction.

“While coolness in disaster is the supreme proof of a commander’s courage, energy in pursuit is the surest test of his strength of will.”

Field Marshal Viscount Wavell

“They mess with me, they answer to me.”

“War isn’t about dying for your country. It’s about making the enemy die for his.”

Gen. George S. Patton