Quotes About Tactics

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones, and mine.

To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess.

Invisibility is the best advantage. But if forced to a confrontation, Come out with all your skill.

The attackers had used one of the oldest and most potent weapons of warfare: surprise.

As students of military history, Rone and Oz could rattle off examples through the ages of attacks at first light.

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Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

According to a remarkable Harvard study, in the asymmetric wars that broke out between 1800 and 1849, the weaker side (in terms of soldiers and weapons) achieved its strategic goals in 12 percent of cases. But in the wars that erupted between 1950 and 1998, the weak side prevailed more often: 55 percent of the time.

un ejército moderno y de gran tamaño ya no basta para garantizar que un país pueda alcanzar sus objetivos estratégicos.

Necesitas neutralizarlos por completo y por todos los medios posibles. —Hegemonía total. El presidente toma nota de ése y de otros tantos sabios consejos—

To pull the chestnuts out of the fire with the cat's paw.

Do not stare into the eyes of your opponent: he may mesmerize you. Do not fix your gaze on his sword: he may intimidate you. Do not focus on your opponent at all: he may absorb your energy. The essence of training is to bring your opponent completely into your sphere. Then you can stand just where you like

maximum of these minimum values; this value is called the maximin, and it is the very least that A can be sure of getting. In this game, if A plays "Favor X," "Favor Y," and "Dodge Issue," these minimum values would be 10, 45 and

maximin, and it is the very least that A can be sure of getting. In this game, if A plays "Favor X," "Favor Y," and "Dodge Issue," these minimum values would be 10, 45 and 10,

He who hits and runs away, lives to fight another day.

Citizens associate the art of diplomacy with peace, without considering that there is as much cruelty in diplomacy as on the battlefield.

Diplomacy does not mean to become soft, but to be more cunning like a fox than the normal citizen. Killing two birds with one word.

Smiling, she went for his throat and almost had him, when—using a move that was all sorts of illegal—he flipped her again so her front pressed into the leaf-laden ground, her wrists still locked in his iron grip and pinned above her head. "Cheater." "So says the woman who tried to kick my balls into my throat," he pointed out, even as he licked the salt off the skin of her neck in a lazy and highly provocative move.

This was war.Who the hell cared about playing fair?

Bitch wants to play games, let's play games.

I should've figured it out earlier, but I was so set on tearing off his head that I didn't think about other options. I'm going to bring him down so low that he has no allies and is running for his life on the streets. Then I'll tear off his head.

I know when to retreat, when to lull my opponent into a false sense of security… and when to launch a final, victorious strike.

Politeness is a good thing; it works to keep people onside, keep them talking- and keep them from looking too deep. People tell me all kinds of things because I'm polite and empathic. Dr. Jitrnicka tells me it's a controlling tactic because I do it will so much self-awareness.