Quotes About Strategy

In a population of retaliators, no other strategy would invade, since there is no other strategy that does better than retaliator itself.

Admissions of ignorance and temporary mystification are vital to good science. It is therefore unfortunate, to say the least, that the main strategy of creation propagandists is the negative one of seeking out gaps in scientific knowledge and claiming to fill them with 'intelligent design' by default.

To be effective, demonstrators must pick the right square and make it the center of their activities.

The only people who believe in straight roads are generals & mail coach drivers.

Armoured cruiser operations with a fleet of Dreadnoughts (though Jellicoe misguidedly thought otherwise and lost three at Jutland) were now ruled out owing to their near equality in speed. The battle cruisers could have filled these fleet duties if they had not possessed an armament that was bound to tempt a commander in chief to place them in line for the sake of their big guns, risking a hit on their vulnerable vital areas.

Weakly protected battle cruisers should never have indulged in a sustained gunnery duel, especially when there were four vastly more powerful fast battleships available in the same scouting force. Armoured cruisers should never have been there at all. Destroyers obscured the enemy.

The torpedo won Jutland. It nearly won the war for the Germans. But in the end it defeated them by drawing in the United States on the Allied side.

If Jellicoe had suffered overwhelming defeat, nothing could have saved the Allies. As Churchill confirmed, he was "the one man who could have lost the war in an afternoon.

Thus in the early summer of 1916, caution was not going to be thrown to the winds. Inferior forces from both sides were to be "lured" into "traps." The big gun might be fired, if it survived the torpedoes, but only when the odds were overwhelming.

But that was the nature of relationships: there always seemed to be an imbalance of one sort of another. And it was fine to plan an emotional strategy, but another thing when the ground opened up in front of you, and your defending troops toppled into a ravine which hadn't been marked on the map until a few seconds previously.

It might have begun a bit like a chess game, but it had taken on its own momentum, and owned both of them.

Remorse has no place in a warrior's mind... A war is like a game of chess, Nicholaa. Every battle is like a well-thought-out move on the board. Once it begins, there shouldn't be any emotion involved whatsoever.

As soon as the boy left the hall, Ramsey suggested that Brodick fill Gideon in on all that had transpired. Our commanders are going to have to coordinate their efforts for the attack, he said. Iain wants Winslow and Dylan and you to handpick the soldiers who'll ride with us into England. We're attacking England? Gideon asked, astonished. No, Brodick answered. Though the thought of it warms my heart.

She started three wars the first week.

She started three wars in the first wee.

Lady Johanna, there is always more than one way into a keep.

Successful organizing forces you to look at the big picture, not one small section of the frame, so that the system you design will be complete.

Cixi's style was not to force through drastic change, but to bring it about gradually through perseverence.

You can get much farther with a smile, a kind word, and a gun than you can with a smile and a kind word. -Al Capone

The good leader in war is not warlike The good fighter is not impetuous; The best conqueror of the enemy is he who never takes the offensive. The man who gets the most out of men is the one who treats them with humility.3 Tyrants

She knew that it was not smart to address her concerns about money directly, for men despised women who confronted them in this way. She knew that the smart wife, especially one no longer willing to parlay sexual favors, would find a way to bring up matters sweetly, pouring honey all over the problem before showing it to the husband. But she was out of patience.

There's always hope. And when that fails, there's guile and wile.

My dear brother, never allow a woman to hold all of the cards.

You learn a lot about a person by the way he plays cards. Then it was a good thing no one had seen her play.