Quotes About Tactics

The people are like water and the army is like fish.

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

A solid rule when you are playing other people is you do not win big and immediately walk away.

But there's good news, folks. If you play your cards right in situations like the one above, you can avoid violence altogether most of the time. What's more, you can do so without having to back down or feeling like a wimp. These are the social dynamics this book is going to teach you.

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

37. There is no "overkill." There is only "open fire" and "I need to reload." 70 Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

The U.S. started to go downhill when it changed from a round designed to kill our enemies to one designed to piss them off.

I've been told, by somebody who knows these things, that Don knows a lot about the, mmm, tactical maneuverings of the party, and everybody involved in these things.

Since Lucas had been in the same coffee shop that morning, talking to Green, he knew the layout of the place. He told the two women agents, Stack and Bradley, to park as close as they could to the coffee shop's door, hoping that would push Carver away from a parking place that he could see from the shop, and give the technician a good chance to install the tracking bug.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Attempting to use a biological agent against your enemy while avoiding its effects on you is like trying to use a grenade by holding onto it and hoping all the shrapnel flies in the direction of the person you want to kill.

Occam's razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone's ass was usually the correct one.

It was interesting what you could do, when your enemy was officially your ally. And unaware you knew it was your enemy.

Don't bring a spoon to a toothbrush fight

You seem tense," Kahurangi said to them. "Of course I'm tense," Niamh snapped back. "We have a stupid plan." "You're just saying this because it's my plan." "I'm not just saying it because it's your plan, and also, yes.

You have to eliminate the low-hanging targets first, on the off chance you were dealing with morons.

Harvey called it his Occam's razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone's ass was usually the correct one.

Pope was aware there were other ways to get more diplomatic respect than bigger guns, of course. But while other diplomatic maneuvers sometimes worked and sometimes didn't, ultimately a big damn gun always commanded respect.

They both came away from the meeting feeling like they had manipulated the other precisely, which meant it was a good meeting.

Good," he said. "A group. Mary and you and the two kids. Subject: men—their weakness and stupidity and how to use them.

There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

When I first started racing, my father said, "Win the race as slow as you can.

My father said, 'When in doubt, castle.'

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.