Quotes About Tactics

It's only cheating if you're caught doing it. Otherwise, it's good tactics.

battle tactics—although the latter were relatively simple in the Skandian world, usually consisting of a headlong charge in response to the command, "Let's get 'em!

They would work from dawn till dusk, studying and practicing weapons craft and battle tactics—although the latter were relatively simple in the Skandian world, usually consisting of a headlong charge in response to the command, "Let's get 'em!

When we get to Macindaw,' he said, 'let's just send him up the ladder with those planks. He'll clear the defenders out in no time.

To a Skandian, my boy, all war is business.

It was said that Gilan could approach to within a few meters of a wide-awake sentry, steal his belt and shoes and leave the man wondering why his pants were falling down and his feet were cold. Horace knew it was an exaggeration—but not by much.

You know," he said to Halt, without any trace of a smile, "it might have been simpler to have the two girls board her with their practice swords." They exchanged a long look, then Halt shook his head. "I needed to leave some of them alive.

T'inquiète pas, chef. Ces Tualaghi, on les a cernés... De l'intérieur.

It's war," he replied. "The trick is to know which risks to take.

Now if you two will excuse us, we'll get back to the relatively simple business of planning a war,' he said.

Oh, it's a case of they think I'll think that they'll do A, so they'll do B because I wouldn't think they'd think of that but then because I might think I know what they're thinking they'll do A after all because I wouldn't think they'd think that way," Will said.

Diamond cut diamond.

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.

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.

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.

Sounding frank, honest, and sincere is, of course, a rhetorical strategy in itself, known from ancient literature as parrhesia. It's often employed by liars.

In the first instance it would carry the American Seventh Army under the celebrated gun-toting General George S. Patton and the British Eighth Army under General (later Field Marshal) Sir Bernard Montgomery.

Von Clausewitz («Toda guerra presupone la debilidad humana…») y de Sun Tzu («Dale a tus enemigos lo que esperan… esto los colocará en una situación de predictibilidad… mientras tú esperas el momento extraordinario, lo que ellos no pueden anticipar»)

He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it. Relieving your feelings was fun, but the best course of action was to make things as difficult as possible for the person trying to make things difficult for you.

How best to state his case. In a game of stakes and odds, Onions held a full corpse to his one arm – he didn't even have a pair.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Of all the weapons vital for a speedy victory, the most vital is information.

When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

In politics you learn to always smile.