Quotes About Tactics

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Solía plantear cinco alternativas para que el presidente escogiera, enumerando en primer y último lugar las opciones más extremas y poniendo en medio las que Kissinger prefería.

La mejor manera de explotar el deseo de ganar puntos de tu contrincante es permitir que los gane. Concédele puntos que no perjudiquen tu objetivo de forma irreparable.

En otras palabras, una forma de conseguir que alguien esté de acuerdo contigo es estar de acuerdo con él tácticamente

utiliza la idea de tu contrincante para conseguir lo que deseas. Practica el jiu-jitsu retórico empleando los movimientos de tu rival para hacerle perder el equilibrio.

Verás cuándo funciona mejor la lógica y cuándo deberías apoyarte en una estrategia emocional.

Rhetoric has a name for debating that seeks to win points: eristic.

There is no excuse among professional officers for not having a 5000 year old mind.

When your army is inferior in numbers, inferior in cavalry and in artillery, a pitched battle should be avoided. The want of numbers must be supplied by rapidness in marching; the want of artillery by the character of the maneuvers; the inferiority in cavalry by the choice of positions. . .

In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it.

What was the name of that terrorist organization? Al-Qaeda in Iraq, or AQI. And after al-Qaeda rejected AQI because of tactics such as this, tactics so depraved and brutal that they even repulsed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, what did AQI become? The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. It became ISIS.

Propaganda is a soft weapon hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

When you're in politics you've got to play the game.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

Man fights with his mind. His hands and his weapons are simply extensions of his will, and one of the fallacies of our era is the notion that equipment is the equivalent of force.

commander may be forgiven for being defeated, but never for being surprised.

It's so rarely about military genius, who the greater tactician might be, who sat higher in his class at West Point. It's about mistakes, some of them unavoidable, some of them purely stupid. My job is to make fewer mistakes than the enemy

That's right, kid. Never play an ace if a two will do.

That's right, kid. Never play an ace when a two will do.

If Raiders of the Lost Ark taught us anything, it's that you don't swing your sword at somebody who has a gun.

She had a nice laugh, even when she was using it as a weapon against him.

Next," she said, "we have to come up with tactics that work." "We could just do something stupid again, wait for them to pounce, and then surprise them by suddenly becoming brilliant," Martin said.

Best stick to sword fighting, then I'd rather, really. But [Ian] says -- I know what [Ian] says. Everyone should learn every conceivable weapon and unarmed combat, in case you lose your axe, sword, dagger, pike, spear, mace, bow, crossbow...

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