Quotes About Tactics

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

Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night.

Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack.

Act after having made assessments. The one who first knows the measure of far and near wins - this is the rule of armed struggle.

He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

Artillery is the god of war.

In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother

In war, only the simple succeeds.

Never let the enemy pick the battle site.

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

All wars are won or lost before they are ever fought.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

Do not engage an enemy more powerful than you. And if it is unavoidable and you do have to engage, then make sure you engage it on your terms, not on your enemy's terms.

Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

Great battles are won with artillery.

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and lose it quickly.

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a strategem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person.