Quotes About Strategy

I'm sure that if I stay in this business I'll one day think of a dirtier trick, but one's hard to imagine now.

Mary was forewarned. When she reached the river crossing, she had three thousand men

He had a force of some seven hundred men, and aimed to wear down his opponents in a guerrilla war.

But Catherine was not to be underestimated. Already she perceived Mary to be a threat

Henry II wanted to launch a counterattack, especially against England.

Darnley was utterly confident that he had pulled off a coup.

Mary wanted to appeal directly to Elizabeth at the level of queen to queen.

The Guises had played their poker game and lost.

Cecil watched and waited. Unlike Mary, he was entirely prepared for what was about to happen in her country.

But war was the "sport of kings." And

Henry sought to conquer French territory, he had to deal first with Scotland

less from Henry VIII's aggression than from James V's decision to launch a counterattack

epic scale without choosing the ground or the moment carefully enough.

greater in that he had been ensconced safely at a distance and was not leading his troops.

Philip II had entertained Maitland's overtures in the first place solely to counter a possible marriage to Charles IX

his goal, unlike Elizabeth's, was to keep her off the throne.

She had great success in raising a royal army.

To achieve a quick result, he found himself accepting terms that guaranteed Scotland's independence

She allied with the pro-French Beaton and Lennox, whose joint forces mustered at Linlithgow on July 24.

taking stock of the likely consequences of the Guise dynastic project, decided to draw back.

Offers came in thick and fast: from the king of Denmark, from the king

I told him there is no Words with Friends in this life: there is only Scrabble, with enemies.

Don't worry, Bill," Borkman told me. "I have Muriel and Richard in my pocket-back!" "In your back pocket—yes," I said to the crafty deerstalker on skis.

IS THIS COUNTRY JUST SO HUGE THAT IT NEEDS TO OVERSIMPLIFY EVERYTHING? LOOK AT THE WAR: EITHER WE HAVE A STRATEGY TO 'WIN' IT, WHICH MAKES US-IN THE WORLD'S VIEW-MURDERERS; OR ELSE WE ARE DYING, WITHOUT FIGHTING TO WIN. LOOK AT WHAT WE CALL 'FOREIGN POLICY': OUR 'FOREIGN POLICY' IS A EUPHEMISM FOR PUBLIC RELATIONS, AND OUR PUBLIC RELATIONS GET WORSE AND WORSE. WE'RE BEING DEFEATED AND WE'RE NOT GOOD LOSERS.