Quotes About Tactics

PC or not, Middle Eastern groups, including Abu Nidal's, are not tacticians. They walk into nightclubs strapped with explosives, plant car bombs, spray crowded markets with machine-gun fire, and fly hijacked planes full of fuel into buildings. Plain and simple, they're cowards. They won't confront anyone on a one-to-one basis. They don't have the savvy or the courage to do in-your-face operations.

Snyder had scaled the rocky heights of the American political landscape by adhering to a simple mantra: Do unto others before they do unto you.

Kill with a borrowed knife.

in history had been won not by those with the greatest number of troops, but rather those with the largest commitment to winning the fight.

Understanding the disposition of your enemy is one of the most necessary elements in conquering him. – Adara Nidal

A believable falsehood must always be in place before conducting a clandestine operation.

Speed, surprise, and overwhelming violence of action.

Smiles can be deadlier than pistols, if used correctly.

It's always better to attack than to defend, Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!

If you have to hit--hit low.

She preferred to avoid battles with them now so she would have authority with them later if she needed to use it. They never say it's one thing to be given command by your superiors and another to be given it by the men under you, she thought as she and Neal rode back to Haven.

Sometimes we win with greater firepower, through sheer numbers or more powerful weapons, but for the most part it's knowledge that defines our victories.

Does the military even have a position between going all out and casualty? Dr. Sloan wondered-her thoughts apparently having been following the same paths. Yes, ma'am. We in the Corps refer to that position as being in the Navy.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

Of course, I never beat Ogus at anything, unless I cheated. Which I did, whenever I could. I figure, winning is winning. Cheating is just one of many ways of prevailing; just happens to be the way I'm best at.

There was once a king in a far-off land who said, when you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

I gather you play chess, he'd said, and she'd given him a look, later he'd ralised it was fair warning; yes, she played chess. The had a mignificent coral and ivory set, worth a thousand acres of good arable land. He'd made soft opening, the way you do when you're playing a girl, and suddenly he found himself staring defeat in the facs - he'd never los a game except three times, to Senza.

Phrantzes considered for a moment, collecting his thoughts like a general rallying his surviving troops after a massacre.

Why fight with an enemy who flees way at the mere twang of our bow

Every chick I try to intimidate in a different way. You have to think about their personality. You have to think about what would get under that particular person's skin the most.

I think if you don't have a style, it makes you invisible in football.

If you go for wickets all the time, then you will go for runs as well because you will have to flight the ball and invite the batsmen to hit you.

A great deal of the work I do involves the military.

English football is different: always on the attack. Although one thing is clear. The best football is the Italian.