Quotes About Strategy

do was let the Ranger get on with thinking, while he took care of walloping anyone who needed to be walloped along the way.

Rikard nodded. Once Andras and the Raven's crew members left, he thought, he'd give them time to get clear. Then he and his men would head for the Stingray, moored against the quay in the inner harbor. Let Raven's crew do the fighting, he thought. They could keep the enemy occupied while Stingray slipped away.

John Flanagan

De hilfman fronste zijn voorhoofd. Hij vroeg zich af hoe hij een dreiging om het Iberische volk uit te hongeren, hun handel te vernietigen en hun leider aan de bedelstaf te brengen in diplomatieke bewoordingen kon omschrijven.

at the time, King Herbert felt that to remain safe, the kingdom needed an effective intelligence force." "An intelligent force?" said Will. "Not intelligent. Intelligence. Although it does help if your intelligence force was also intelligent.

Diamond cut diamond.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

The reality is if a strategy or tactic is working now, the odds are high that it won't work in the future. There is just too much change taking place in our world for it to be any other way.

Battles are won when warriors make the decisions not to lose.

Speed and simplicity: these are the keywords to overcome the enemy.

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.

To an economist, no action is really a mistake, it's just an optimal answer to a different question.

For the next ten days, Hillary would come at Obama, guns blazing, armed with a line that, in the context of her new persona, was so well pitched and perfectly modulated that it almost sounded like poetry.

And while I at length debate and beat the bush,There shall step in other men and catch the birds.

How to Win a Fight - Step 1: Always make eye contact. Step 2: Go ahead and use henchmen - these days it's unnecessary and frowned upon to fight your own battles, especially with so many henchmen out of work. Step 3: Run lots of attack ads - I have run about 500 attack ads this year, and I expect that I will buy even more air time next year, because my enemies are getting stronger.

The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

The aim of states is to be the biggest and baddest dude on the block because if you're the biggest and baddest dude on the block, then it is highly unlikely that any other state will challenge you simply because you're so powerful.

If you really want to wreck Russia, encourage them to try and swallow Ukraine. That's like swallowing a porcupine.

we made all the necessary rhetorical changes to make it look like we were aligning ourselves with a burgeoning democracy...

The modern chess player's cry of "Checkmate!" is a corruption of the Persian "Shakh Mat!" which translates, "The king is dead!")

In theory, say you did have thousands of people—no, thousands of systems—enraged at a hypothetical Galactic Empire in a faraway galaxy. But they're all upset over local matters, over particular grievances, and they never get together on anything. So they get no strength in numbers, no strategic advantages from cooperation. They're easy to divide and conquer. And worst of all, no common spirit ever develops.

A starship is a weapon, but it's the crew that makes it deadly.

Remember, men. it is better to wound than to slay, since it takes time to carry an injured man to the rear and sometimes requires two of the enemy rather than one.

Do you really have a business without being able to reach and motivate a customer?