Quotes About Tactics

The general who leads in the front of battle is a fool.

A crafty enemy," Caldin said heatedly before Reene had gone five paces, "will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush.

Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician.- G. A. Custer

No matter what the "take-from-the-rich" crowd came up with, the rich always found a way to outsmart them.

SEALs did some of their best work in the dark—and that wasn't just a pickup line. The

Never argue when you're winning. (Crimson Death)

knew enough to use their blindness to our advantage.

Chess is a sad waste of brains.

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

Politics is not a science...but an art.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

The man who wins out and survives does so only because of superior science and strategy.

To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction.

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.

The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.

The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.

As the Russians say, getting what you want sometimes requires moving like the knight in chess: forward and to the left.

The two stormtroopers might not have been tactically sophisticated, but they had been good shots.

He plans to use every low-down technique he knows to loosen up the suspect, everything from good cop/bad cop to a four-pound bag of oranges that damage the internal organs but don't leave a mark upon the skin. Or, failing that, he'll Google him. Sure

Child, you know nothing about war. You think it's big and it's loud and it's good versus evil. It's not. War is a delicate thing: it requires precision. It requires timing.