Quotes About Tactics

Limited wars were not to be considered lesser-included cases. The ability to deter, fight, and win in the least likely contingencies — total wars —did not necessarily ensure the ability to deter, fight, and win in the most likely contingencies — limited wars.

la iglesia ha dejado de tomar su guía de las Escrituras y se ha desviado a las consultorías de mercadeo y emplean tácticas de negocios del mundo.

You can only win if you know the rules of the game.

good warrior knows when to lose a battle so she can live to fight the war.

Y si es así, ¿qué pretendía con los fuegos artificiales? Aparte de fastidiar a Napoleón Bonaparte, lo que no parece muy inteligente. El tipo tenía mal genio, y un ejército.

he'd won by playing dirty—worse than losing.

The more complicated a person's strategy seemed, the less likely an opponent was to look for simple answers. If you could keep someone looking at your knight, you could take them with a pawn. Look past the details. Past the complications.

Why kill two birds with one stone, he always said, when you could kill twelve?

All's fair in love and war--and black ops.

There is no such thing as fighting dirty, I told Nash, if you win.

I could see, already, how this was going to end. "You'll have checkmate in three moves... Luckily for me," I told him, my fingers closing around my own queen, "I'll have checkmate in two.

He saw dozens of permutations in how things could play out, planned for every eventuality, strategized for each and every possible future.

Ik zag nu al hoe het zou aflopen. 'Over drie zetten zet u me schaakmat.' ... 'Maar gelukkig,' zei ik, terwijl ik mijn eigen koningin van het bord plukte, 'zet ik u in twee zetten schaakmat.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.

By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principle characteristic seems to be—what human nature mostly delights in—a fight.

I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.

On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in a checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.

You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods. The method produces numerous results

There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another. This conception is a potent menace to social regeneration. All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim. The means employed become, through individual habit and social practice, part and parcel of the final purpose; they influence it, modify it, and presently the aims and means become identical.

The trick to negotiation was to hold all the cards going in and, even if you didn't, to try to look as though you did.

Certain battles were won by retreating.

Der Trick bei Verhandlungen bestand darin, von Anfang an alle Karten in der Hand zu haben oder zumindest so auszusehen, als ob dem so wäre.

Really, Commander. Holly—Captain Short is only here because I tricked her.