Quotes About Tactics

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

A game looks like a set of operations, but after the payoff it becomes apparent that these operations were really maneuvers; not honest requests but moves in the game.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

By this point in the war Lee had become a master at outlining a course of action that was specific enough to obtain the necessary bureaucratic backing but vague enough to allow him maximum flexibility of action once underway.

I wonder if Napoleon or even Robt. Lee were our commander this evening would they pursue a defeated army in this cautious, courteous way?

In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else, for whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.' Jose Raul Capablanca

Keep your friends close, Sun-Tzu had written. Your enemies closer.

Speed isn't everything," Stonepelt told her. "A warrior who runs ahead of the prey catches less.

Professional politics is a trade in which the sly outweigh the wise.

Nightingale was against it from the start, said we should send in the RAF and bomb the camp from altitude. He said it was the only way to be sure." He gave me a puzzled look. "Did I say something funny?

Richmond won on points, but only because one of them had a flask full of coffee.

In war, no variable is more important, and less easy to control, than the element of surprise.

If you've got a squirt gun in your pocket, you may have to take it out. If you've got a bazooka, and people know you've got it, you may not have to take it out," he said. Sometimes market fears can be self-fulfilling, and a strong demonstration can avoid the worst outcomes. I was reminded of the military doctrine of "overwhelming force" as the way to prompt quick surrender and minimize casualties.

Aunts, I have learned, never admit defeat. In the face of overwhelming forces, or incontestable facts, they simply change tack. Had Napoleon been an aunt, he would never have done anything so vulgar as to 'retreat' from Moscow. Rather, he would have framed his return to Paris casually as a question of clothing and etiquette, noting it was unseasonably cold for October and declaring that–like fish and family–armies of invasion go off after three days.

left's favorite three lines of attack are (1) you're stupid; (2) you're mean; (3) you're corrupt. Sarah

That's the way it will go because that's how the left wins: through intimidation and cruelty. You

Rule #2: Hit First. Don't take the punch first. Hit first. Hit hard. Hit where it counts. Mike

But it's because conservatives don't think about how to win that they constantly lose.

The left knows this is war. And

Let The Other Side Have Meaningless Victories. This is a parlor trick you can use to great effect with your leftist friends. Leftists prize faux moderation above all else; by granting them a point or two, you can convince them that you aren't a radical right-winger at all.

time and again in politics, unity has been used as a club to wield against those who disagree.

In preparation for the "Days of Rage," the Weathermen met with representatives of North Vietnam in Cuba to train them in tactics. The North Vietnamese promptly asked them to start a war on U.S. soil. The Weathermen would be only too happy to oblige.

This is a bully tactic. When someone calls you a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe because you happen to disagree with them about tax policy or same-sex marriage or abortion, that's bullying.

bien puede decirse que la estrategia, y la fuerza y la táctica, que son cosas humanas, no pueden ni podrán nunca nada contra el entusiasmo, que es divino.