Quotes About Tactics

Let's see... "Advanced Flanking Theory", by U.R. Skrood. "Fighting on the Grid", by Minnie Churse. "Moving on Diagonals", by Wun and Ahaff. Ah ha! Here it is: "Attacks of Opportunity Explained", by Ben Dover and Taye Kitt.

What cannot be accomplished by threats can often be achieved by composure. Sit and stare and let your opponent fill the silence with his own demons.

Many times Subotai fought against armies larger than his own, but he always maneuvered to insure that when the final blow was struck, he unfailingly achieved numerical superiority at the decisive point.

An army of donkeys led by a lion is more effective than an army of lions led by a donkey! â–  The primacy of politics in military affairs is absolute, and often works against military effectiveness.

The ability to conceptualize war plans and implement them on a grand scale is one of the most difficult skills for any officer to acquire. Most never acquire this ability, something that may explain why warfare has, over the long centuries of its practice, produced only a few truly great generals. Subotai became one of those generals.

Der Triumph der Taktik über die Strategie hat unser Land gelähmt.

mid-June 1915, "the wind was favourable and we discharged a very poisonous gas, a mixture of chlorine and phosgene, against the [Russian] enemy lines. . . .344 Not a single shot was fired. . . . The attack was a complete success."345

What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?

There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.

Always, Always have a plan

Normally, as long as I'm telling him what to do, he wins in a fight.

Sounds like a plan worthy of Athena.

A battle can be won before it's ever fought by choosing the right ground.

They know they've won," Carter guessed. "They're making a show of it." "Yes," Amos said. "Well, let's blow up the boats or something!" I said. Amos looked at me. "Is that your strategy, honestly?

Intelligence won wars, not brute force.

Athena always, always has a plan.

There's always a way out for those clever enough to find it. -Athena

When strength doesn't work," Zeus said, trickery might.

I'd have to play this smart … which was not my usual style.

There's no secret to winning. Act boldly when you need to, and be cautious when you must.

Burning a bridge, as any tactician will tell you, sometimes saves more than it costs.

In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

Chess is all about maintaining coherent strategies. It's about not giving up when the enemy destroys one plan but to immediately come up with the next. A game isn't won and lost at the point when the king is finally cornered. The game's sealed when a player gives up having any strategy at all. When his soldiers are all scattered, they have no common cause, and they move one piece at a time, that's when you've lost.

The game's sealed when a player gives up having any strategy at all.