Quotes About Tactics

Diplomacy amounts to nothing; it all comes down to blood and iron in the end." "Don't misquote Bismark at me.

Quick, ruthless, but not prone to long-term strategy-that was the Charter Trade Company.

Two can play at Salisbury's game.

The Mebd was playing a game. If she was breathing, she was playing games.

There's something about Richard that's hard to get used to, when you've been dealing with the likes of Valens, and I don't know how to describe it. They both delight in tricking people, in holding all the cards.

I was losing this round, and I neded to disengage without seming like I was running away.

Because to outwit your rivals, first you had to know their ways and how to play their games.

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

for the Germans, this moment was exactly what they had been hoping for. Their master plan to send Lenin to Petrograd to take Russia out of the war was paying off even better than they had imagined.

American technology was now driving military strategy, rather than the other way around.

while their generals' strategies committed them to taking the offensive, the new tools of modern warfare gave the overwhelming advantage to the defender.

By training his soldiers to lunge with their bayonets not at the charging Highlander in front of them, but at the one to their right as he raised his arm to strike and thus exposed himself to a lethal thrust, Cumberland now had the tactic that could counteract the violent shock of the clansmen's charge. His troops sensed for the first time that they could beat the Jacobites in a pitched battle.

Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability is in the opponent. —SUN TZU, THE ART OF WAR

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

Cuanto más se suda antes de la guerra, menos se sangra en ella.

La artillería es el arma que bate habitualmente a la infantería propia y a veces a la enemiga

Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

You shall never be able surprise us, but let me assure you, we shell surprise you, don't mess with Pakistan - DG ISPR Asif Ghafoor

Just because you believe in self-defense doesn't mean you let yourself be sucked into defending yourself on the enemy's terms.

His view of war - and he had seen a great deal of it - was that a general made as many blunders as he fought battles, but, by the grace of the gods, the opposing generals' blunders were sometimes worse.

People can cooperate, compete peacefully, or use violence to achieve their objectives, depending on what they believe will serve them best in any given circumstance.

Water shapes its course according to the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

If a man would cross a business, that he doubts some other would handsomely and effectually move, let him pretend to wish it well, and move it himself in such sort as may foil it.