Quotes About Tactics

At Leyte Gulf we used eight carriers, eight light carriers, and sixteen escort carriers — thirty-two in all.

tactic that works well for me is to be clear in my refusal but ambiguous in my explanation for the refusal. The key is to avoid providing enough specificity about the excuse that the requester has the opportunity to defuse it.

Roxanne Archer designed her strategy like a four-star general—or a stalker.

Abraham Lincoln had not given a single speech on his own behalf during either of his campaigns, and Rutherford B. Hayes advised Garfield to do the same. "Sit crosslegged," he said, "and look wise.

It's important to clarify that forced teaming, too many details, charm, niceness, typecasting and loan sharking are all in daily use by people who have no sinister intent. You might have already recognized several of these strategies as those commonly used by men who want little more than an opportunity to engage a woman in conversation.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. (describing Saddam Hussein of Iraq, 1991)

Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.

On Chiang Kai-Shek: "He's a son of a bitch but he's our son of a bitch."

Don't try to stay ten moves ahead of your opponent. Stay behind him with a knife.

Number eight of the ten Amazon commandments: never fight an opponent face-to-face if you couldn't defeat him. Wait and stab him in the back later.

You're right that you can't achieve the strategic until you've mastered the tactical,

No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.

A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow

I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.

Irene had no objection to stealing a good strategy, any more than to stealing a good book.

When the opponent completely controls the chessboard and things can't get worse for you, sometimes the answer is to make it worse for everyone . . .

Information was the best weapon she could have.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, and all that sort of thing.

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

On every front, the CIA was turning its guerrillas into a far smarter and more lethal fighting force.

You have no idea how much it contributes to the general politeness and pleasantness of diplomacy when you have a little quiet armed force in the background

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.