Quotes About Tactics

Do not do what you want to do, but what you judge your enemy least wants you to do

In a fight, do not do what you want to do, but what you judge your enemy least wants you to.

Someday I will teach you how to plan and administer an attack on a fortification. You don't just drive up to it, you idiot. What did you think would happen?

Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

Strategy without execution is hallucination.

You don't have to be faster than a bullet, you just need to be smarter than the man holding the gun.

Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

He had the ability to twist almost anything I said or did so that I seemed stupid.

Squash is boxing with racquets.

Diplomacy is only important when the other party has the upper hand.

Ultimately, it was a battle between those who believed that it was folly to think Hillary could show up in lower-population areas and change hearts and minds and those who believed, just as firmly, that politics and Hillary's path to victory were fundamentally about doing just that. That elemental split hung over nearly every internal skirmish over strategy and tactics—from

It was all by design, as he said later. Angry fighters don't think clearly. They don't stick to their plans. They get frustrated, sloppy. Clay knew that Liston was sensitive about his image, that he yearned for respect, and so Clay worked to deny him that respect. By labeling Liston an ugly bear, Clay was tweaking his opponent's most sensitive nerve and perhaps using racism to do it

Interrogation...was the highest art of the inquisitor.

All the weaponry and tactics that have been deployed in the war on terror are justified by precisely the same theological stance once invoked by the war on heresy.

If it rushed he'd slash. Stabbing is a fool's move, the blade gets caught. Ben knew that quick slashes could fend off even a big hound or a boar.

You can learn much about an enemy when you watch him win. We will watch and learn . . . and plan.

submarines and motor torpedo boats, respectively

Aronian made the interesting point that if I could force a passed a-pawn I might have winning chances

Weapons win wars, but it takes ideas to win the peace.

There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. (1954)

Hay dos buenos trucos para triunfar siempre. Uno: hacerse el idiota; otro : serlo.