Quotes About Strategy

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Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

Victory is a political fiction.

Divide et impera [Divide and rule].

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

He has trained himself not to sleep; he is leading teams of surveyors outside the city walls; his soldiers at the Throat Cutter have launched

Victories in the field," he commented, "count for little if the right decisions are not taken at home.

The war against Sextus Pompeius would not have been won without him

Caesar was a commander of genius; he was decisive, brave, and, even in the heat of battle capable of creative thinking

Wanting to prove himself as a general, he invaded the rest of Gaul (central and northern France and Belgium).

For himself he wanted a high command, an army and a war in some field where his gifts could shine in all their brightness.

The dictator was due to quit Rome on March 18 to join his legions in Greece.

He was pleased to receive his colleague's ships, but had no serious intention of finding him his legions.

of both Hirtius and Pansa—had placed Octavian in an extraordinarily powerful position.

and wanted to replace Tiberius with Agrippa, and that Livia acted to defeat him.

To attain this objective, they would have to draw most of Sextus' navy into an engagement in the seas off northern Sicily.

In this way he would avoid the humiliation of falling into Caesar's hands and, worse, having to endure a pardon.

the two men agreed on a plan that employed speed and surprise to turn the tables on Antony and trap him.

when he won the command to defeat Hannibal in the third century B.C.

Cleopatra took her time, but when she appeared she brought everything that was needed.

Warships had brass battering rams on their prows, and the usual tactic was to ram the side of an enemy ship.

Romans tended to fight sea battles as if they were on land.

37 B.C.; it was in his interest to ensure that the west was quiet before he set off against Parthia