Quotes About Tactics

Orson Scott Card

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.

We need serious strategic and tactical thinking about how to create new models of leadership and forge the kind of persons to actualize these models.

Litvinchuk is a smart man; he implements different tactics for different factions.

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

Blacksmiths sometimes twist a rope tight around the nose of a horse, and by thus inflicting a little pain they distract his attention from the shoeing process. One way to get air out of a glass is to pour in water. Be Absorbed by Your Subject

It is often dangerous to rush into battle without pausing for preparation or waiting for recruits.

He asked questions with which his opponent would have to agree. He kept on winning one admission after another until he had an armful of yeses. He kept on asking questions until finally, almost without realizing it, his opponents found themselves embracing a conclusion they would have bitterly denied a few minutes previously.

My friends, in these desperate times we must use every weapon we have...You must understand that patience can be a weapon.

In classic Steve fashion, he would agree to something, but it would never happen," said Lack. "He would set you up and then pull it off the table. He's pathological, which can be useful in negotiations. And he's a genius.

they have to try to figure out where their opponent's pieces are. "The wildest

McCollum believed in military

Deep Blue ganó aquel torneo de ajedrez por la fuerza bruta, ya que era capaz de evaluar 200 millones de posiciones por segundo y compararlas con 700.000 jugadas

As a master of the relationship between power and diplomacy, Franklin knew that it would be impossible to win at the negotiating table what was unwinnable on the battlefield.

reliable rule of diplomacy that you cannot win at the bargaining table something that you would be unable to win on the ground.

Eisenhower, in short, had perfected the art of playing against his assigned role, first as a nonmilitary general and later as a nonpolitical president. This deliberately cultivated style had proved enormously successful in war. How would it work in the White House?

Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn

One thing I had learned in high school was that in sports you always had to move in a direction that your opponent did not expect. From Ping-Pong to prizefighting, the man with the unexpected moves was the player most likely to win.

With a combination of nimble counsel, exasperating ego, studied patience, and street-fighter tactics, William D. Leahy, Ernest J. King, Chester W. Nimitz, and William F. Halsey, Jr., built the modern United States Navy and won World War II on the seas. Each

Other men would get to command the spear point; Nimitz would calmly and diligently manage the arm that held the spear.

Your lordship's servant has a sensible, natural, pretty idea of military matters; somewhat irregular, though, and smells a little too much of selling the bear's skin before he has hunted him.

there are stratagems in law as well as war.

An idiot with a plan can beat a genius without a plan.