Quotes About Strategy

International politics is not unlike the jungle: smaller and weaker animals require acute intelligence, sensitive antennae, and nimbleness of footing to assure their own self-preservation; the strong—such as elephants—need pay less attention to ambient conditions and can often do as they wish, and others will get out of the way.

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

Life was a series of complicated tactical exercises, as complicated as the alignments at Waterloo, thought out on a brass bedstead among the crumbs of sausage roll. [p107]

This is European duplicity, Pyle. We have to make up for our lack of supplies.

There are unimportant pieces in any game.

Nothing increases the odds of victory more than letting the enemy think he''s already taken your secret weapon."

carefully negotiated his way

Russia's most prominent military scientist noted that Desert Storm showed that terms like "front lines" and "flanks," and the idea that winning a war means occupying enemy territory, were no longer relevant.

Respect for women is essential," Jack tells him. "Women's rights and economic development within a country are highly correlated. Treating women properly is not just a moral position—which it is—or an American value—which it is. It's a strategic imperative, and you will always, always lead by example in this regard.

Moral high ground is a wonderful place to site your artillery. —NAPOLÉON

Military history is the story of the terrible murder of beautiful plans by ugly facts.

The first rule of black business everywhere is: never let anyone know what you're thinking. Didier's corollary to the rule was: always know what others think of you.

The first rule of black business everywhere is: never let anyone know what you're thinking. Didier's corollary to the rule was: always know what the other thinks of you.

Even God used silence as a strategy.

There's no question that the next generation of terrorists, rather than going for small, little dramas, will go for the big one. They now understand that the way to get the world's attention is not strapping bombs to themselves in a pizza parlour, but to do something so horrific it gets you into the Guinness Book of World Records for terrorism.

Rarely is it correct to play a hyper-aggressive style of poker. But there are certain situations where a seemingly reckless approach will actually be the most profitable strategy to employ, like at the Main Event at the World Series of Poker.

Obviously, I think the most meaningful thing is winning, and winning the World Series, but the way you help your team, if that is stealing bases and you can be the best at it, I think that's pretty cool.

The World Series of Poker was becoming popular, and there were a lot of really bad poker players out there. The misperception was that I was really good, but I just ground it out. It was a good way to make money for Box.

You never want to have Yadier Molina up with the bases loaded in the World Series, but, dammit, you wouldn't want a better hitter up. Maybe that's not the way most people think, I don't know. That's how I think.

For five or six years, I didn't play in some of the good games leading up to the World Series of Poker, because with so many below-average players there, I reasoned it messed up my game.

It's weird coming into a game in the later innings, in a World Series game.

I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it.

If you look back at Greek mythology and even back before World War 1, every time a team would go out to battle, they'd eat first.

World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation.