Quotes About Tactics

She was supposed to be writing an essay on how geography had shaped the great battles of the past, but she was having trouble concentrating. In fact, all she'd managed so far was a title. "How Geography Has Shaped the Great Battles of the Past.

Don't pick a fight you can't win.

We train in strategy, geography, horsemanship, weaponry, that sort of thing. We study great battles in history and analyze the outcome. The

Revolusi kini telah membuktikan dirinya sebagai pembantu-pembantuku yang baik dan loyal. Tentu tak ada yang mengira bahwa kami pernah berada pada pihak yang bertentangan. Kami hanya tidak sepakat di dalam taktik. Itulah cara dari orang-orang revolusioner.

Aku mengerti bagaimana kecintaanmu kepada tanah air. Aku menghargai semangatmu itu. Tapi hanya itu yang kaoian miliki. Kalian juga perlu taktik yang bijaksana dan otak yang dingin.

Yang lebih penting di dalam suatu peperangan dan revolusi adalah waktu yang tepat.

My opponent called me a cream puff. ... Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.

military historian Richard Holmes.

Diagnosticians act in many ways like politicians who may overtly take their differences very seriously but are always willing to shake hands in a smoke-filled room

The great commander knows that in order to win one needs to know the remote and also the immediate reasons for the war, the capacities of the soldiers, which is to say the social and political make-up of the states, determining the variety, the quality and the character of the men.

Putin learned from reading the William King and David Cleland textbook in the 1980s and 1990s, planning for uncertainty is the most important element of strategy.

OLD AGE AND TREACHERY WILL OVERCOME YOUTH AND SKILL.

Two unarmed men against six loaded for bear. We need to even the odds." "Got a plan?" asked Giordino. "I certainly do." Giordino gave the little man with the academic, nerdy look a bemused stare. "Is it evil, rotten, and sneaky?" Gunn nodded, with an impish grin. "All that, and more."   THE

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

An army that never leaves its defences Is bound to be defeated, said Napoleon, Who left them, and was defeated.

Does the salesman like this information? Yes, because you've exposed your deadline to him without knowing his.

Herbert George Jenkins

One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one's predecessors in authority at any cost or hazard.

Trade as well as war has changed aspect—both are now fought at long range.

all face two basic and interrelated questions: What to? How to?

The cardinal used to say, Cromewll will do in a week what will take another man a year, it is not worth your while to block him or oppose him. If you reach out to grip him he will not be there, he will have ridden twenty miles while you are pulling your boots on.

It is prince's tricks,' he says. 'Three days in a row Henry gives the French a private audience. Then he ignores them for a week.

So often in council he has taken Katherine's part, as if he were one of her appointed lawyers. 'You make this argument, my lords,' he has said, 'but the dowager princess will allege…' And 'Katherine will refute you, thus.' Not because he favours her cause but because it saves time; as her opponent, he enters into her concerns, he judges her stratagems, he reaches every point before she does. It

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.