Quotes About Strategy

It is of course also possible that the attacker is deliberately feinting to draw the parry to bind it, and will strike on the same side if he manages to open the line, or on the other side if not. Feints

No one ever throws a perfect blow in the exact line it is supposed to be in—but by having a set of lines with which to classify blows, we can improve our own efforts, and respond more effectively to our opponent's. Fencing principles help us draw general conclusions from a basically chaotic situation.

If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.

climate-change scenarios are already playing a large and increasing role in the military planning process.

További szerencse, bár természetes adottság, hogy ellenzékünknek nincs programja, célja mindössze annyi, mint mindig minden ellenzéknek: benyomni néhány emberét a kormányba.

El Chayo, El Chango y La Tuta diseñan con singular astucia su separación de Los Zetas. A mediados de 2006 formalizan el nacimiento de una nueva organización llamada La Familia Michoacana, cuyo objetivo es expulsar a Los Zetas de la Tierra Caliente.

Al final, los intereses estratégicos de la cohesión social y de la ganancia son convergentes. Ambas requieren una economía de mercado pujante y un Estado fuerte.

The unrealistic beliefs of diplomats are what soldiers die of,

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

En el juego de la supervivencia algunos vehículos juegan mejor, maniobran mejor, y se propagan mejor que otros.

Call me crazy, but I think we do the best living when we have a Plan B.

Guderian's troops reaching the Meuse was an absolutely extraordinary achievement, and was due to a masterpiece example of the German Bewegungskrieg.

Really, it was incredible that they had achieved any successes at all. As if to underline the disintegration of the entire German war strategy, on the night of 4/5 December temperatures along the Eastern Front plummeted to minus 35 degrees.

Montgomery intended to bludgeon his way through the German opposition. What he had learned in North Africa, in Sicily and in southern Italy was that the Germans always counter-attacked. It was almost Pavlovian.

believe long ago had decided it was better to be first in Gaul rather than second in Rome.

His strategy of flying boldly into the face of adversity was studied and taught, and during the Clone Wars would come to be known as "the Tarkin Rush

And the Jedi?" Lyra asked. "Also doing what they can. But remember, Dooku is one of their own, and he's a crafty opponent. At times he seems to be able to read our minds, if not simply outguess us.

a leader's vision for the future has to be supported with facts about both the past and present." One

Approaching White Oak Swamp from the north, he sent a crew to rebuild the bridge over the creek. When Union artillery and sharpshooters prevented this, Jackson lay down and took a nap.

The Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz had defined war as the pursuit of political goals by other means. Confederate strategy in 1864 certainly conformed to this definition. If southern armies could hold out until the election, war weariness in the North might cause the voters to elect a Peace Democrat who would negotiate Confederate independence.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Because all that money wouldn't be in the pot in the first place if you weren't up against a pretty strong hand, you loose, dumb, tight-weak motherfucker!

Spend one hour every day thinking about your goal and how to get there.

The strategy of infinite players is horizontal. They do not go to meet putative enemies with power and violence, but with poiesis and vision. They invite them to become a people in passage. Infinite players do not rise to meet arms with arms; instead, they make use of laughter, vision, and surprise to engage the state and put its boundaries back into play.