Quotes About Strategy

Whether or not this was a valid theory, the fact was that Aïda swallowed it hook, line, and sinker and used it to inform her genetic strategy in the Great Game.

FIGHTER (deprecated synonyms: CONAN, WARRIOR) One who specializes in missions where, to put it politely, martial attributes are of the essence. Since every DTAP has a unique environment surrounding weapons, fighting styles, and martial culture, competence in fighting is only a part of the skill set required to be a successful Fighter. It is equally important to know how and when to fight.

Punjab, the more certain he became that simple and obvious would defeat complicated and clever

hydrological warfare.

How does a poor country defeat rich ones?" "Indeed, the answer is not by acquiring wealth in the sense that France has it." "Meaning vineyards, farms, peasants, cows?" "But rather to play a sort of trick and redefine wealth to mean something novel." "Currency!" "Indeed.

That's what medicine was to kids: an acute response to disease. When you got older you understood it was more like brushing your teeth: a system of highly evolved strategies for preempting bad things that could happen to you if you took no preventive measures.

So you've placed yourself there to begin with in order to avoid going there. Hmmmmm. Interesting strategy.

I was no longer in the game to meet women; I was in the game to lead men.

Using words like casual and hang out, and the time constraint, were all part of a strategy to make the visit a low-pressure event. It's a much better way to get someone to commit to time with a stranger than AFC-style dinner dating, which can be a painful, drawn-out affair that involves two people who may have nothing in common stuck together for an entire night of awkward conversation.

Butting heads with someone never works," his mom said. "I always say that you don't have to do the direct approach. You can just go around because there's always a back way." "Now I know where he got Mystery Method from." In three sentences, his mother had unintentionally summarized Mystery's entire approach to meeting women: the indirect method.

You could summarize Jesus' leadership strategy as follows: I'll do it; you watch. We'll do it together. You do it; I'll watch. You do it!

anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. And if your shooting stance is good, you're probably not moving fast enough.

Hollis said to Banks, "Once I bombed only politically approved targets. We lost the war.

He had a clean shot, but he also had an informal rule of trying not to kill anyone within an hour of landing in a new country

Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy, until you can find a rock.

Well, I thought, someone has to get screwed. That's the art of the deal.

Before you go on any mission, you need to understand what you know, identify what you don't know, and try to guess what could go wrong.

What do you do, Jack, when any move you make is the wrong move?" "You hope the other guy makes a bad move.

Machiavelli asks "whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved?" He answers that "one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with.

The final National Strategic Target List specified 1,050 Designated Ground Zeros (DGZs) for nuclear weapons, including 151 urban-industrial assets. Even the minimal version of the plan envisioned 650 DGZs being hit by over 1,400 weapons with a total yield of 2,100 megatons.

The Russian commander whose ship was torpedoed by SMS Emden off Penang on October 28, 1914, was certainly unprepared for the new age of global conflict. Only twelve rounds of ammunition were ready on deck; but there were sixty Chinese prostitutes below.

Since no country has had any experience with the tactical use of nuclear weapons, the possibility of miscalculation is considerable. The temptation to use the same target system as for conventional war and thereby produce vast casualties will be overwhelming. The pace of operations may out strip the possibilities of negotiation. Both sides would be operating in the dark with no precedents to guide them.119

There is always home, sweet home. As an insurance policy or a pension plan, however, this strategy has one very obvious flaw. It represents a one-way, totally unhedged bet on one market: the property market. Unfortunately, as we shall see in the next chapter, a bet on bricks and mortar is very far from being as safe as houses.

There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy.