Quotes About Tactics

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics.

Charles Krauthammer

Sometimes you have to show people your cards to keep them in the game.

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

You're a trickster, Doctor, not a warrior.

Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.

The nature of war is to shape the enemy.

The ability to rapidly shift the focus of one's efforts is a key element in how a smaller force defeats a larger, since it enables the smaller force to create and exploit opportunities before the larger force can marshal reinforcements. Lind notes, and this is especially relevant to business,

Catalogs called it a "survival knife." Survival, in combat, meant knowing how to kill people quickly and silently.

Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed and war is an extension of those politics.

Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend.

Eyes must look far ahead, and thoughts be deeply pondered. Be bold and unremitting in attack. Give the wrong command, and two chariots are rendered useless. Come the right moment, a pawn can bring you victory.

but Rhee's police-state tactics concerned the Truman administration enough that it refused to provide the republic with much in the way of heavy arms—thus leaving South Korea vulnerable to attack.

Their orders were to draw the newly arrived Americans into battle and search for the flaws in their thinking that would allow a Third World army of peasant soldiers who traveled by foot and fought at the distant end of a two-month-long supply line of porters not only to survive and persevere, but ultimately to prevail in the war—which was, for them, entering a new phase.

A commander in battle has three means of influencing the action: Fire support, now pouring down in torrents; his personal presence on the battlefield; and the use of his reserve.

Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit.

There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.

Against the enemies we're targeting, Ms. Cooper, the method of death is crucial.

Indeed, Clausewitz was wary of the general who tried to be too smart. He preferred those who kept their imaginations in check and a firm grip on the harsh realities of battle.

Strategy is revolution. Everything else is tactics.

A strategist should think in terms of paralyzing, not of killing. —Basil Liddell Hart

The ability to persuade not only one's people but also allies and enemies was a vital attribute of the successful strategist. In this way, strategy required a combination of words and deeds, and the ability to manipulate them both.