Quotes About Tactics

The best way to end a war is to make certain that it never happens. The best way to win a war is to change the shape of the battles to suit your needs.

The Americans love to play diplomacy by making scares. It's a crude method.

The central attitudes driving the Water Torturer are: You are crazy. You fly off the handle over nothing. I can easily convince other people that you're the one who is messed up. As long as I'm calm, you can't call anything I do abusive, no matter how cruel. I know exactly how to get under your skin.

When you are left feeling hurt or confused after a confrontation with your controlling partner, ask yourself: What was he trying to get out of what he just did? What is the ultimate benefit to him? Thinking through these questions can help you clear your head and identify his tactics.

But abuse is not a battle that you win by being better at expressing yourself. You win it by being better at sarcasm, put-downs, twisting everything around backward, and using other tactics of control—an arena in which my clients win hands down over their partners, just as they do in a violent altercation. Who can beat an abuser at his own game?

All fish are not caught with flies.

machicolations.

a war maxim attributed to Napoleon: Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

By all accounts, Stalin, who was both prepared and well organized, was easily the best negotiator of the three leaders. American and British officials marveled at his mastery of the details of military operations and diplomatic issues. Indeed, many years later, Anthony Eden wrote: "If I had to pick a team for going into a conference room, Stalin would be my first choice.

In modern war … even those belligerents who are hampered by moral scruples must neglect no weapon that may be of service.

The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

The frontal attacks puzzled me. Why advance straight into German machine-gun fire? Why not make flank attacks?" These suicidal charges worked occasionally only because Stalin did not care how many of his own soldiers died.

MUSSOLINI OBSERVED THAT IN SEEKING TO ACCUMULATE POWER, it is wise to do so in the manner of one plucking a chicken—feather by feather—so each squawk is heard apart from every other and the whole process is kept as muted as possible.

Good. I wanted him angry. He would make mistakes that way.

Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected.

There's an old adage in bad trial lawyering that when you don't have the facts, do a lot of yelling.

You weren't required to divulge all of your witnesses and describe what they were going to say, no sir. It was trial by ambush.

Reed will pull a Trump

When possible, never let the enemy know what you know.

He had a force of some seven hundred men, and aimed to wear down his opponents in a guerrilla war.

Forced to retreat by a smaller but better-disciplined English battalion, the Scots were snared.

greater in that he had been ensconced safely at a distance and was not leading his troops.

She had great success in raising a royal army.

Richard Rumelt's Good Strategy/Bad Strategy