Quotes About Tactics

you've no idea, the whole Army's obsessed with playing at soldiers...

Unsurprisingly, planning was most admired and advocated at the political extremes.

The only way to win this cat-and-mouse game, as the Cat said in Red Dwarf, was not to be the mouse.

A veces hay que atacar a la gente con sus propias armas. El truco está en no mostrar ni la más mínima duda mientras se habla y en incluir al menos a un reconocido autor de éxito, preferiblemente a uno del que efectivamente se haya leído algo. Además, cuanto más exóticos y extranjeros sean los nombres, mejor.

Sometimes you have to turn people's own weapons against them.

Taktika se sastoji u tome da znaš šta da uradiš kada nešto može da se uradi. Strategija se sastoji u tome da znaš šta da uradiš kada ništa ne može da se uradi. Savelij Tartakover (poljski velemajstor)

Kuidas saab veel paremini kinnitada oma autoriteeti, kui veendes eeldatavaid vastaseid, et nad on lüüa saanud juba enne võitluse alustamist?

Kes hoiab jala gaasipedaalil - säilitab külma närvi -, see võidab alati, kui eeldada, et vastane on terve mõistusega.

A man like Zod is effective primarily in crisis situations. And so in order to hold on to his power, he has to create or maintain the state of emergency.

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

Are we really going to have to do this the hard way?" Farkas sighed. "Going forward, may I suggest that designation be restricted only to operations that include arming our self-destruct mechanism while inside an alien vessel?" Commander Roach asked.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

Gentlemen, I like war. Gentlemen, I love war. I like genocide. I like blitzkrieg. I like aggressive war. I like defensive war. I like sieges. I like breaking through. I like withdrawing. I like cleaning up. I like retreating. In moors. On highways. In trenches. In plains. On tundra. In desert. On sea. In sky. In mud. In marshes. I love every aspect of war that takes place on Earth.

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

We must defend ourselves according to our opponents' ability, not their intentions.

If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell

What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.

Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.

The talent of the strategist is to identify the decisive point and to concentrate everything on it, removing forces from secondary fronts and ignoring lesser objectives.

Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.

Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.

in war, the advantages and disadvantages of a single action could only be determined by the final balance.

War is simply the continuation of politics by other means

The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.