Quotes About Tactics

My center is giving way my right is in retreat: situation excellent. I am attacking.

You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'

Power and speed aren't enough to overcome someone who is strategic, who knows what you'll do before you do it and can turn it on you; someone who is mentally engaged and combines the whole package.

And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.

The weapon where the man is sitting in is always superior against the other.

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset - its flexibility.

Marketing is becoming a battle based on information than on sales power.

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

Offense is the essence of air power.

I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.

Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed.

Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

Greater powers and resources do not guarantee tactical superiority.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

More men have been elected between sundown and sunup than ever were elected between sunup and sundown.

If he had wished, he could have annexed Denmark; and ended a thousand years of war and history. But Charles had no weaknesses; now and thereafter he was behaving out of a book. The first maxim of Alexanderism is never to stop; Charles continued.

People's anxiety rises and their motivation falls. They feel disoriented and self-doubting. They are resentful and self-protective. Energy is drained away from work into coping tactics.

Tell me how you wish me to deal with these enemies of yours, for they are no able to camp, and I will deliver them in your hands in whatever manner you wish.' Modern accounts invariably include the story of how dal Verme sent Hawkwood a fox in a cage, to say that he had the clever Englishman trapped. -Jacopo dal Verme to Giangaleazzo Visconti

Deciding to lure Bourquien off his strong position, Lake gave the order for the infantry to fall back in a feint, and they did so, between two wings of cavalry who lay hidden behind the tall grass. The Marathas took the bait and rushed forward, only to find themselves

Hit hard, hit fast, hit often!

William Frederick Halsey (Jr.)