Quotes About Tactics

It's easy to draw up isolation basketball - it's not easy to draw up great motion offense with passing and cutting.

You have to have a deep passing game within your offense. It's got to be incorporated in some form or fashion.

You can see that just with the passing, you can destroy the defense.

Munich was the final turning point for Hitler. He had met the leaders of the western democracies and made monkeys of them. He had proved that tactics of deception, threat and histrionics worked at the highest levels of European diplomacy. His will had broken the bonds of reality; everything was possible.

Clausewitzian strategy of seeking the most expeditious means of weakening the enemy's will to continue the struggle.28

The art of war lies in calculating the odds very closely to begin with, and then in adding exactly, almost mathematically, the factor of chance. Chance

Such perfection endures. For more than two millennia after horse-riding was invented, the warhorse remained the most important military technology bar none. A plentiful supply of horses was critical even in the 19th century, well after firearms had replaced the bows and arrows. Have you ever wondered why Napoleon, who won all of his battles until 1812, lost one battle after another in 1813 and 1814, leading to defeat and abdication? The surprising answer is: horses.

Everything's an act. Everything's strategy.

The math was irrefutable: The one winning strategy was concealment. Only fools revealed their birthdays.

GRUNTS LOOK THE ENEMY IN THE EYE. GRUNTS KNOW THE STAKES. GRUNTS KNOW THE PRICE OF POOR STRATEGY. WHAT DO THE GENERALS KNOW? OVERLAYS AND TACTICAL PLOTS. THE WHOLE CHAIN OF COMMAND IS UPSIDE-DOWN. –KENNETH LUBIN, ZERO SUM

If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this

I was in the military for over ten years! If you can't read a battlefield you could accidentally surrender to your own officers, which is super embarrassing, if only because it'll get you shot.

I'M PLAYING LOOSE — Game: Average 2 players before the flop Action: First to the pot, and raising Players: 9- to 10-handed

As he explained to his officers and men, the war against Persia could not be finished until the shah, as the Persians called their king, was mat, or finished. The endgame had to be shah mat, a Persian phrase that would evolve in time into checkmate.

There are two things that create, protect, and increase a sovereign's rule—soldiers and money—both being dependent on each other. Armies need money and money is acquired by the strength of arms. If you lose one, you lose the other. Caesar

Not since murder became the continuation of politics by other means.

No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy's main strength

Nh? Napoleon ?ã nói, chi?n tranh v?n d? r?t ?áng s?, cho nên nó nên ???c thúc ??y càng máu tanh càng t?t ?? ch?m d?t nhanh nh?t có th?.

Whether you are in a street fight or confronting an invading army, appear weak when you are strong and strong when you are weak.

When you're visiting an antiques fair, turn left once you've passed through the entrance. Everyone else will turn right, which means you can get to the bargains before them.

When you're calculating variations - especially long ones - it really helps to visualize the board.

I like to take the floor apart mentally. I like to visualize an opponent going for you.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

It is not enough just to get your forces from A to B - you have to keep them fed and watered as they go. The art of movement, therefore, is one of the most complex and vital that any commander must master if he is going to win.