Quotes About Tactics

Kentucky wants to occupy some clock

Everybody who I play always wants to use me, so I always tell them that I'm the only one who knows how to stop Portis, so go ahead.

If you've got some news that you don't want to get noticed, put it out Friday afternoon 4:00 pm.

You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.

When it comes to the military, I don't want to discuss things. I want to let - I want to let the action take place before the talk takes place

I would use the debt limit. I don't want to say - I want to be unpredictable, because, you know, we need unpredictability. Everything is so predictable with our country.

John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.

Kruppe nodded. "Kruppe is no fool, K'rul. He openly opposes no one, and he finds power a thing to be avoided at all costs.

Soldiers have no imagination, meaning they're capable of vast surprises

Against defenders, often the best tactic is to sheathe your weapon and refuse the game.

Causes that live by politics, die by politics.

All of life is a complex game of strategy; moves, and countermoves, taking and losing pieces, setting up for the final

The law of successful operations is to avoid the enemy's strength and strike his weakness.

Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?

So the Nixon White House laid out the path to electoral success by maximizing white grievance and suppressing the African American vote through a combination of manipulation, lies, and legal challenges. It was this road that the Republican Party took to the Trump White House.

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side

Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding.