Quotes About Tactics

I have played the fox, now I must play the cat of the fable.

A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove. When he meets another retaliator he plays like a dove. A retaliator is a conditional strategist. His behaviour depends on the behaviour of his opponent.

To be effective, demonstrators must pick the right square and make it the center of their activities.

intampina cu un zambet aproape tot ce spuneau ceilalti, in parte fiindca, in tinerete, descoperise ca asta ii usura drumul in viata, in parte fiindca era o masca, iar el gasea o mare placere in a-i insela pe ceilalti, castigandu-le increderea, convingandu-i ca n-au de ce sa se teama de el. Ca si tiganii, folosea mai multe masti: a vorbirii, a comportamentului, a personalitatii. Pentru ca, pe dedesubt, sa ramana el insusi.

Thus in the early summer of 1916, caution was not going to be thrown to the winds. Inferior forces from both sides were to be "lured" into "traps." The big gun might be fired, if it survived the torpedoes, but only when the odds were overwhelming.

Still, they were two thorns from the same thistle. Their tactics in terrorizing innocent ladies were identical. Their behavior was downright sinful, but what made it even worse was the fact that neither warrior seemed to realize the effect he had on others.

Remorse has no place in a warrior's mind... A war is like a game of chess, Nicholaa. Every battle is like a well-thought-out move on the board. Once it begins, there shouldn't be any emotion involved whatsoever.

As soon as the boy left the hall, Ramsey suggested that Brodick fill Gideon in on all that had transpired. Our commanders are going to have to coordinate their efforts for the attack, he said. Iain wants Winslow and Dylan and you to handpick the soldiers who'll ride with us into England. We're attacking England? Gideon asked, astonished. No, Brodick answered. Though the thought of it warms my heart.

She started three wars the first week.

She started three wars in the first wee.

Lady Johanna, there is always more than one way into a keep.

Criminals are getting younger and dumber

You are a devious woman, Blackthorn,' she said. 'I prefer the term strategic thinker.

You can get much farther with a smile, a kind word, and a gun than you can with a smile and a kind word. -Al Capone

The good leader in war is not warlike The good fighter is not impetuous; The best conqueror of the enemy is he who never takes the offensive. The man who gets the most out of men is the one who treats them with humility.3 Tyrants

She knew that it was not smart to address her concerns about money directly, for men despised women who confronted them in this way. She knew that the smart wife, especially one no longer willing to parlay sexual favors, would find a way to bring up matters sweetly, pouring honey all over the problem before showing it to the husband. But she was out of patience.

You deal with the bitch, I'll deal with the ditch.

If you can't beat them, divide them.

but she'd purposefully turn in a paper late or miss an assignment so she'd fall closer to the middle.

The best captain does not plunge headlong Nor is the best soldier a fellow hot to fight. The greatest victor wins without the battle....

Our view, which we have found confirmed by long practice, is that the correct tactics in propaganda are not to entice away a few individuals and local groups here and there from one's opponent, but to work on the great mass, which is not yet taking part in the movement. A single individual whom one has oneself reared from the raw is worth more than ten Lassallean turncoats...

To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power and movement. The enemy's center of gravity

not so much an agent provocateur as an agent passif, if such a thing could be said to exist. ("Sometimes," Perry said, "saying nothing can be your strongest weapon.")

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.