Quotes About Tactics

She would bring him back to us as docile as a sheep. 'Women,' I concluded rather bitterly, 'have at their command certain means of persuasion which the best- organized police forces do not possess.

If somebody wants to compete, I'll just pull out enough to win.

Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese philosopher, wrote the now classic The Art of War nearly twenty-five hundred years ago. This book has become the classic on how to achieve victory in the battlefield. He said this about the enemy: "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the

Socrates' demonstration of the defect in the officers' concept of courage has some important implications. A commander who believed that ordering a retreat was cowardly would be severely constrained in his options; one who had a broader definition would have more tactical choices.

Each CAT team member is equipped with a fully automatic SR-16 rifle, a SIG Sauer P229 pistol, flash bang grenades for diversionary tactics, and smoke grenades. CAT agents also may be armed with Remington breaching shotguns, a weapon that has been modified with a short barrel. The shotgun may be loaded with nonlethal Hatton rounds to blow the lock off a door.

Few men have gained power, or retained it, by using, in Lenin's words, "the methods of a finishing school for young ladies.

the homemade wisdom of the parliamentary nursery: in order to carry anything, you must first have a majority. The same, they say, applies to revolution: first let's become a "majority." The true dialectic of revolutions, however, stands this wisdom of parliamentary moles on its head: not through a majority to revolutionary tactics, but through revolutionary tactics to a majority - that is the way the road runs.

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

Mrs. Gibson has got her way all her life by leaving things to people's consciences.

Better to have your enemies inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

Ouça-me este conselho: em política, não se perdoa nem se esquece nada.

Que pour être efficace, il faut cacher ses intentions.

En hij kan het beste te werk gaan zoals bekwame boogschutters, die wanneer ze het doel dat ze willen raken te ver weg achten, omdat ze weten wat de kracht van hun boog is, het mikpunt veel hoger nemen dan het doelwit, niet om met hun pijl zo hoog te komen, maar om met behulp van dat hoge mikpunt hun doel te kunnen bereiken.

This raises the question whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the contrary. My reply is that I would like to be both but as it is difficult to combine love and fear, if one has to choose between them it is far safer to be feared than loved

Underdog strategies are hard.

We would all be sitting in our deck chairs in the backyard, and we would look up, and all of a sudden, the Air House—or maybe even some specific part of the Air House—would be gone. Poof. High-altitude precision bombing. Curtis LeMay won the battle. Haywood Hansell won the war.

Hey, say you are looking at a chess board. Is there anything you can't see? No. But are you guaranteed to win? Not at all, because you can't see what the other guy is thinking.

It is easier and far more satisfying to retreat and compose yourself after every score—and execute perfectly choreographed plays—than to swarm about, arms flailing, and contest every inch of the basketball court. Underdog strategies

Algunos de estos nuevos pensadores afirman que si tuviésemos un mejor servicio de información, si pudiésemos verlo todo, no podríamos perder», dice el coronel Van Riper. «Lo que mi hermano dice siempre es: "Imagínate que estás mirando un tablero de ajedrez. ¿Hay algo que no veas? No. ¿Y eso te garantiza la victoria? Ni mucho menos, porque nunca podrás ver lo que está pensando el otro".

Just under a third of the time, the weaker country wins.

T]he whole character of secret Intelligence ... is that nothing should ever be done simply if there are devious ways of doing it.

To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is art; to know why to strike is victory.

Hitters are too big, too strong, and their bats are too quick. I have to go inside to have success.

Success in solving the problem depends on choosing the right aspect, on attacking the fortress from its accessible side.