Quotes About Tactics

combatir y vencer en la batalla no es la excelencia suprema, sino que esta reside en romper la resistencia del enemigo sin luchar.

One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.77]

If one party is at war with another, and the other party does not realize it is at war, the party who knows it's at war almost always has the advantage and usually wins.

Lo que es, pues, esencial en la guerra es el triunfo, no las campañas prolongadas. Por este motivo el general que comprende la guerra es el ministro de la fortuna del pueblo y el árbitro de la nación.

17. All warfare is based on deception.

Cambia sus colores (de los soldados enemigos hechos prisioneros), utilízalos mezclados con los tuyos. Trata bien a los soldados y préstales atención. Los soldados prisioneros deben ser bien tratados, para conseguir que en el futuro luchen para ti. A esto se llama vencer al adversario e incrementar por añadidura tus propias fuerzas.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster. * Know not your enemy yet know yourself, and you shall win half your battles. * Know neither the enemy nor yourself, and you shall surely lose every fight.

An outstanding perfection is not in winning every battle, but in defeating an enemy before entering a battle.

Know your enemy, know yourself, and the victory will not be questionable even in hundreds of battles.

Those who know themselves, but not the enemy, shall achieve the same amount of defeats and victories.

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Invulnerability depends on us, vulnerability on our adversary.

So much for operations in salt-marches.

You can know victory and still you won't achieve it.

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

A skillful defenders hides within ninefold earth; a skillful attacker moves above ninefold sky

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, victor of El Alamein and commander of land forces on D-Day, wrote extensively on The Art of War in his monumental A History of Warfare.

The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.

One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it.

Conservare la disciplina e la calma, attendere i primi segnali di disordine e chiasso nell'esercito nemico: in questo consiste l'arte dell'autocontrollo.

Those who do not know the conditions of mountains and forests, hazardous defiles, marshes and swamps, cannot conduct the march of an army. Those who do not use local guides are unable to obtain the advantages of the ground.

The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field. With his forces intact he will dispute the mastery of the Empire, and thus, without losing a man, his triumph will be complete.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

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