Quotes About Tactics

William Slim, a shrewd, rugged Gurkha officer who would eventually show himself to be Britain's ablest general of the

In Soviet thinking the concept of economy of force has little place. Whereas to an Englishman the taking of a sledgehammer to crack a nut is a wrong decision and a sign of mental immaturity...in Russian eyes the cracking of nuts is clearly what sledgehammers are for.

taking a roundabout route in an effort to disorient the Amorite.

General Napoleon says that 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.' Well, I suggest doing the opposite: Interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Don't be opportunist; don't benefit from the weakness of your enemy! Be just even to your enemy! Try to find a way to defeat him without harming him; prove to be as intelligent as to find such a way! Only then, your victory will be meaningful and honourable!

Politics is the art of anesthesia.

Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good.

Best way to find the weakness of the enemy is to understand their ways.

One night of strategic bombing will restore all your lost prestige in the Middle East

How did you know that we could get him to do whatever we want if we pretend he's in charge?" Sabrina asked Daphne. "It's what I do with you" the little girl replied. "You two are exactly the same

Party conferences can be such fun. They resemble a nest of cuckoos. Sit back and enjoy watching everyone trying to push the others out. The

Managers must clearly distinguish operational effectiveness from strategy.

Wizarding chess

Michael G. Thomas

We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.

Special teams, field position, and situational football are all Belichick staples

The Godfather, Part III (1990): Vincent Mancini: Don Lucchesi, you are a man of finance and politics. These things I don't understand. Don Lucchesi: You understand guns? Vincent Mancini: Yes. Don Lucchesi: Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

When competing one-on-one, follow two simple rules: If you are the favorite, simplify the game. If you are the underdog, make it more complicated.

If you are the stronger player, simplify the interaction to emphasize your skill. If you are the underdog, complicate the game to introduce more luck into the outcome.

If you are the stronger player, simplify the interaction to emphasize your skill. If you are the underdog, complicate the game to introduce more luck into the outcome. Underdogs that successfully increase the influence of luck will also increase their chance of winning.

Popular participation is seen in positive terms, but – once we move beyond grand strategy to specific questions of priorities and tactics – primarily as backing agendas set from above.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Any good strategist knew that sacrificing a pawn was vastly preferable to risking the king. It was the whole reason armies had infantries.

Fire and idealism may be fine qualities for the leader of a revolution, but the leader of a great republic needs to be several degrees cooler and a good deal more canny.

He who retreats lives longer.