Quotes About Tactics

It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.

The essence of strategy is to align your ends with your means: to match your goals and your resources.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.

I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

'Oh yes,' he thinks, 'Women. With their subversive sexual tactics have no place in this game. It is no accident that the queen is the deadliest of pieces; the manly pawn: the weakest.'

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Does Batman ever NOT have a plan...?

Un nano non lancia mai la sua arma se non ne ha un'altra!

No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

Please calm yourselves and stop talking. Plan A01: Rain Destruction has been superseded by Plan B01: Distract and Extract.

And it wasn't like the company was afraid of GrayCris, but they had to teach them a lesson. (The lesson was: if you're going to fuck with something bigger and meaner than you, use a quick targeted attack and then run away really fast. (This is the way I always try to operate, too.)

That's how SecUnits are taught to fight: throw your body at the target and kill the shit out of it

The lesson was: if you're going to fuck with something bigger and meaner than you, use a quick targeted attack and then run away really fast.

a person generally stands to benefit more from appearing dumber than he is rather than smarter.

Seduction, marginalization, diversion, and attack all serve a function.

Though hand-to-hand combat has become rare, much modern warfare continues to involve physical strain such as those who have not engaged in it can scarcely imagine.

The first is extreme flexibility which will enable one to take advantage of fleeting opportunities. Said Sun Tzu, "an army is like water which adapts itself to the configuration of the ground.

I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.

As for you, be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

Fabius took command after Cannae, avoided pitched battle with Hannibal and played a waiting game, combining guerrilla tactics with a scorched-earth policy, to wear down the enemy (hence 'delayer').

even the British left-wing Fabian Society adopted his name and example – the message being, 'if you want the revolution to be successful, you must, like Fabius, bide your time'.