Quotes About Tactics

Only a heathen brings a gun to a sword fight." "Only a moron brings a sword to a gunfight.

The danger with our commitment to the principle of racial equality is that it leads us to confuse tactics with principles. The principle of gaining equal educational opportunity for black children was and is right. But our difficulties came when we viewed racial balance and busing as the only means of achieving that goal.

If they didn't take you seriously, they would never see you coming.

You don't smack the water with your paddle if you wish to catch fish.

press, and Connolly had a plan, a work-in-progress

Deal me in. If they want to play checkers, we'll play chess. Fuck them.

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

Message is more important than money. Issues are more central than image. Strategy matters more than tactics. Positives work better than negatives. Substance is more salient than scandal. Issues are more powerful than image, and strategy more important than spin. The more partisan you are, the less effective you will be.

War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage.

The basic lesson of 1805–7 was that not only must the three eastern monarchies unite but the Russian army must already be positioned in central Europe when military operations began.

Never play cat and mouse games if you're a mouse.

overwhelmed the Scots. The Prince's lack of skill as a commander

The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.

The old dictum is that "no plan survives first contact with the enemy," and the special-ops team is already regrouping and improvising a new plan. He hears the sharp, disciplined fire

The advantage always favors the one who is trying to create fear, over the one who is trying to erase it."87

I've never played for a draw in my life.

I've dealt with politicians my entire life. You never make a bad deal with a politician. They're so easy.

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

Almost every part of the mile is tactically important: you can never let down, never stop thinking, and you can be beaten at almost any point. I suppose you could say it is like life.

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

Charm is just a way of fuckers getting you to do what they wanted you to do all along. They might as well hold a gun to your head. They're both shortcuts.

I'm talking about the mission. You have to get Conrad to want you back, and then you have to rebuff him. Brutally.

The rules of war, then, have always changed as a reaction to the conflict that's just been fought.

there is the potential for flushing an enemy out into the open not by seizing any particular objective, but simply through placing a presence in his rear.