Quotes About Tactics

Information and intelligence is the fire and maneuver of the twenty-first century," says Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn

He knew there was no road map for this session. That was not how interrogation worked. Conversations were improvisational.

When you're in what seems like an impossible situation and it looks sure that you're going to be overrun, you have to keep in mind that only half of what the enemy does is actually going to put him in a position to overrun you. The other half is to communicate this so you'll do his work for him.

Taliban: Americans have all the watches, but we have all the time.

One can almost always achieve surprise in war by suddenly doing something that is truly stupid, but surprise alone is scarcely victory.

When Quiggin ingratiated himself with people—during his days as secretary to St. John Clarke, for example—he was far too shrewd to confine himself to mere flattery. A modicum of bullying was a pleasure both to himself and his patrons.

That answer was such a simple one that I could not imagine why I had not guessed it without having to be told. Those very obvious tactical victories are always the victories least foreseen by the onlooker, still less the opponent.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the nonobvious. —MARCUS AURELIUS

The whole trick in investing is: "How do I keep from losing everything?" If you use the 200-day moving average rule, then you get out.

A man who desires to soften another man's heart, should always abuse himself. In softening a woman's heart, he should abuse her.

He conquered his enemies by their weakness rather than by his own strength

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life. And by practice this becomes extended to so many branches, that the delights, — and also the disappointments, — are very widespread

O camarada Lenis nos ensinou que [...] na guerra dos exércitos, não se pode atingir o objetivo estratégico, que é a destruição do inimigo e a ocupação de seu território, sem ter antes atingido uma série de objetivos táticos, visando a desagregar o inimigo antes de enfrentá-lo em campo aberto.

La verità è la tattica della rivoluzione.

Radfahrbeweglichemarschgruppe

Operation Typhoon.

but the outcome of the battle depended on nerve as much as resources.

Even if they do all the 'right' things interpersonally — even if they apply all the latest skills and techniques to their communications and tasks—it won't matter. People ultimately resent them and their tactics. And so they end up failing as leaders — failing because they provoke people to resist them.

A prudent person after all can pick something Even from an enemy.

Now, at last, the Ramans' strategy was obvious. They had come so close to the Sun merely to tap its energy at the source and to speed themselves even faster on the way to their ultimate, unknown goal.

Professor Moriarty is not a man who lets the grass grow under his feet.

If your opponent is better armed and has longer reach, then surprise is your only ally. And then you'd better hope he's half asleep.

One thing I still remembered from my war days was how to move in shrubbery.

In a con game, you use his greed. You make the first move, and