Quotes About Tactics

I'm a marketing genius.

When I was young, we used to do drills to get a feel for the man you were marking.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. SUN TZU

One can see here that for Alinsky, democratic politics is basically a mechanism of legal extortion, justified by appeals to justice and equality. Alinsky

In this book, I turn the tables on the Democratic Left and show that they—not Trump—are the real fascists. They are the ones who use Nazi bullying and intimidation tactics and subscribe to a full-blown fascist ideology. The charges that they make against Trump and the GOP are actually applicable to them.

Leverage: don't make deals without it. Enhance

Leverage: don't make deals without it.

Section 5: The Plan

Assess the Strength of Your Marketing Campaign

A clever writer on political questions [Machiavelli] rightly said that if it is necessary for the realization of a political goal to go for a series of atrocities, then they must be carried out in the most energetic way and in the shortest time, for the popular masses will not endure prolonged application of atrocities. . . .

None knows better than the devil, that "to divide is to conquer.

You must direct the fire and movement of the entire element and resist the instinct to become just another gun in the fight.

Gunfights aren't static events and perfecting the skill of shooting while moving could mean the difference between life and death.

This is a novel of asymmetric warfare.

The Teams had a saying: "Don't rush to your death." There was hardly ever a good reason to go barging into a target at full speed without carefully assessing the situation.

Wyatt Earp: Fast is fine, but accuracy is final. In a gunfight you must learn to be slow in a hurry.

Selous Scouts

The Book of Five Rings, by Miyamoto Musashi,

Speed. Surprise. Violence of action.

Generals always fight the last war

Cortés proved the shrewder of the two. As he did with the Aztecs, he did with his Castilian rival: he defeated Narváez's larger force with a smaller one.

At one point during the war, the Germans built fake airfields out of wood to draw British bombers away from their real targets and to fool the allies into thinking they were strategically more powerful than they actually were. However, the British weren't fooled - and took the mickey out of the Germans by dropping wooden bombs on the decoys!

Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.