Quotes About Tactics

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Hit 'em where they ain't.

The only trump card I have to beat is the bluff."

You don't catch big fish with a small pole, nor do you catch small fish with a big hook."

A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.

Good intelligence wins battles long before the first arrow is shot or the first sword is drawn from its scabbard.

As in many other games, moving first is an advantage in single-issue negotiations—for example, when price is the only issue to be settled between a buyer and a seller. As you may have experienced when negotiating for the first time in a bazaar, the initial anchor has a powerful effect. My

Substituting one question for another can be a good strategy for solving difficult problems, and George Pólya included substitution in his classic How to Solve It: "If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it.

Substituting one question for another can be a good strategy for solving difficult problems, and George Pólya included substitution in his classic How to Solve It: "If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it." P

Master Sun put it simply: "Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril

Da questo punto di vista, per un buon percorso di studi letterari la strategia conta almeno quanto la capacità di comprendere i testi. E un - cattivo studente- è, più spesso di quanto si creda, un ragazzino tragicamente privo di doti tattiche. Solo che, preso dal terrore di non darci quel che ci aspettiamo da lui, comincia subito a confondere studi scolastici e cultura.

Sometimes it is better to give an opponent a small victory then suffer a devastating defeat yourself. Gabriel Allon

A veces un terrorista vivo es más útil que un terrorista muerto.

Sun-tzu wrote that all warfare is based on deception. He preached that every battle is won or lost before it's ever fought.

Daniel Silva

Perhaps the Allies will engage in some trickery. A diversionary landing, perhaps as you yourself have suggested, my Fuhrer. But the real strike will come here. At Calais.

By way of deception, thou shalt do war. —Motto of the Mossad

The best way to win at a game of chance is to remove chance from the equation.

there was nothing more dangerous, he thought, than a patient man.

Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

General James Gavin, the commander of the 82d Airborne Division in World War II, carried an M1 Garand rifle, then the standard American-infantry weapon of World War II. He advised young infantry officers not to carry any equipment that would make them stand out in the eyes of the enemy.

the Romans were one of the first to also place leaders behind their men in an open order of battle.

The held fast to Deng Xiaoping's dictum: 'Hide your strength and bide your time'.

I always plan for longterm, life to me is a never ending chess match