Quotes About Tactics

Elevate yourself above the battlefield.

If you have no enemies, find a way to make them

Do not show all your cards. An air of mystery heightens your presence; it also creates anticipation.

Por esto, cuando he conseguido una victoria, no vuelvo a emplear la misma táctica otra vez, sino que, respondiendo a las circunstancias, varío mis métodos hasta el infinito. —Sun-tzu (siglo IV a.C.).

The formation of proper alliances was in some ways a more important art than that of warfare itself, and the statesmen adept at this art were more powerful than military leaders.

Sometimes, he said, summing up the discussion with an aphorism I have never forgotten, if you find yourself stuck in politics, the thing to do is start a fight--start a fight, even if you do not know how you are going to win it, because it is only when a fight is on, and everything is in motion, that you can hope to see your way through.

if you find yourself stuck in politics, the thing to do is start a fight—start a fight, even if you do not know how you are going to win it, because it is only when a fight is on, and everything is in motion, that you can hope to see your way through.

But it is one of the tricks of the successful politician to be able to hold many things in mind at once and to switch between them as the need arises;

But there is as much skill in knowing how to handle a meeting of ten as there is in manipulating a gathering of hundreds.

Push out a bayonet. If it strikes fat, push deeper. If it strikes iron, pull back for another day.

Sometimes,' he said, summing up the discussion with an aphorism I have never forgotten, 'if you find yourself stuck in politics, the thing to do is start a fight – start a fight, even if you do not know how you are going to win it, because it is only when a fight is on, and everything is in motion, that you can hope to see your way through.

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

How do you fight someone smarter than yourself? Rand whispered. The anser is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.

A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight

Great captains earned their reputation not just for laying brilliant plans, but for still being able to find victory after those plans began to fall apart.

If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.

Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the dance of battlefields. At their core, many battle tactics were simple. Avoid being flanked, meet heavy force with pikes, infantry with a well-trained line, channelers with other channelers. And yet, the finesse of it...the little details...these took centuries to master. No man from this Age had lived long enough to learn the details with such care.

No plan of battle survives first contact

A wise man tried to avoid battles he would not only lose, but look foolish losing.

It looks a good plan to me. As good as any till the arrows start flying.

a victory of diplomacy did not come when everyone got what they wanted—that made everyone assume they'd gotten the better of her, which encouraged more extravagant demands. The trick is not to satisfy everyone, but to leave everyone feeling they reached the best possible result. They must be satisfied enough to do as you wish, yet dissatisfied enough to know that you bested them.

One of the first rules he'd learned in life was to never fight a man when you had an equal chance of losing.

Sometimes, Gareth Bryne had told her when she was a child, you find yourself outnumbered, with no path to slip away. Always do what your enemy least expects, Elayne. In that case, you must attack.

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