Quotes About Tactics

Never go easy on allies if you ahve to take them down. Especially allies. You're already fighting the urge not to hurt them. Counteract that and hit them with everything you've got.

So how'd you get Dad to agree? Did you play the cultural card?" "Of course not. That would be wrong." I grinned. "You did, didn't you?

When you're about to be turned down, go for a postponement.

El presidente Wilson dice que un líder debe tratar a la opinión pública del mismo modo en que un marinero se aprovecha del viento, utilizándolo para impulsar la nave en una dirección u otra, pero nunca intentando ir directamente contra él.

I must remember that, Philip thought: when you're about to be turned down, go for a postponement. p314

We move by inches, not miles," said Gus Dewar with a smile. "That's politics.

There was much talk about why the prime minister had brought back such a troublesome and unpredictable colleague, and the consensus was that he preferred to have Churchill inside the tent spitting out.

Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

El flanco de un ejército era más vulnerable que su cabecera.

un líder debe tratar a la opinión pública del mismo modo en que un marinero se aprovecha del viento, utilizándolo para impulsar la nave en una dirección u otra, pero nunca intentando ir directamente contra él.

este modo, los rusos describieron una trayectoria envolvente cuyos flancos se cerraron en tenaza en las proximidades de una ciudad llamada Tannenberg. Ambos

You know you're winning, in politics, when your opponent steals your ideas. - Bernie Leckwith

You know you're winning in politics, when your opponents steal your ideas.

Se trata de pragmatismo político, nada más.

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Soldiers want to win wars, not avoid them." The

peaceful men and women whose only crime is to disagree with the government. Does this sound fantastic to you, unlikely, something that could never happen? Well, they used exactly those tactics in Germany—and it worked.

I know Daniel Murphy is a really good hitter. He's definitely pulling the ball right now for power, although he did go left-central the other night against the Dodgers, I believe.

We've made three World T20 finals and won one - that's not by power-hitting. We've beaten the power-hitting sides quite easily and convincingly in all of those tournaments.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

Lack is more in means, than in principles.