Quotes About Tactics

TIME syndrome, which is the introduction of threats, intimidations, manipulations, and escalation.

I'm really good a breaking down a problem into small enough parts that everything falls through the cracks & voilá, problem solved. —Problem Solver

The observation of Major George Beckwith bears repeating: "Washington did not really outfight the British, he simply outspied us!" In

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

As Prussian field marshal Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke said, "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Karl Marx had said, "Give me twenty-six lead soldiers and I will conquer the world

There is never a point in showing your hand before you have to; that is just a way to ensure giving the game away.

The world of politics is dictated by rules.

Every type of politics could be addressed from the point of view of leaders trying to survive.

If the essence of successful strategy is the ability to compel one's opponents to accept one's own appraisal of a situation

To reach me, you must move to me. Your attack offers me an opportunity to intercept you.

When the opponent expand, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And, when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - it hits all by itself.

My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Work hard, and if you can't work hard, be smart; and, if you can't be smart, be loud.

The key of strategy ... is not to choose a path to victory, but to choose so that all paths lead to a victory.

Of course the Russians under Zhukov were

War is politics implemented by the use of force.

The Kwajalein invasion, the first of these

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

It is bad business to go into War without a target.

Never send a man where you can send a bullet.

Clausewitz's first principle was to have a secure base. From there one proceeds to freedom of action.

He knew from long experience that a letter sent in fury merely put a weapon into the hands of your enemy