Quotes About Tactical

I was tasked to provide some much-needed adult supervision and demonstrate necessary tactical proficiency when dealing with enemy threats through the appropriate use of precision fires in accordance with the warrior ethic. What are you doing here, soldier?

No one was expecting the six-man team of elite SAS officers to storm the prison, but that is exactly what they did do. Hurling stun grenade and tear gas canisters, they entered the jail through a skylight before freeing the terrified prison warder.

An FBI study many years ago suggested, accurately I believe, that "Officer Friendly" gets killed a lot more times in the field than does "Officer Assertive." I'm paraphrasing here, but the point is, good cops know when to break the right number of eggs to make the omelet. Tactical Perfection seeks to take policing and officer safety back to a level where we know it should be.

you can send a battalion of U.S. Marines, not only anywhere in Afghanistan, but literally anywhere in the world, and they will clear an area. Anywhere in South-Central Asia, a battalion of Marines is going to be so tactically dominant that they can clear that area. And as long as you are willing to keep them there, they can hold it. . . . The problem is handing the cleared area to the Afghans and doing something with it."10

I'm a mismatch at the four, so a lot of times, I have slower guys on me, and I can exploit that.

If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.

Which was a reminder that you didn't want faith getting in the way of tactical considerations. But, at a certain point, faith, however groundless, however forlorn, can be all you've got left.

A recurring problem needs nothing but a tactical head-on solution. The more you entertain your problems, the more your entertain unhappiness!

It would slowly become evident that when they committed themselves at last to secession, not as a threat but as an accomplished fact armed for violence, the devoted men who wanted to preserve the Southern way of life had made a tactical error. The ultimate fate of their cause would be largely determined by what was done in Washington. Leaving Washington forever, they had fatally surrendered the initiative. Now their enemies would seize it.

You can think of the difference between tactical and strategic oversight as the difference between doing things right and doing the right things. Both are required.

The Obama presidency has seen the U.S. military's elite tactical forces increasingly used in an attempt to achieve strategic goals. But with Special Operations missions kept under tight wraps, Americans have little understanding of where their troops are deployed, what exactly they are doing, or what the consequences might be down the road.

Corporal Clasp crawled up beside him. 'That's one of those Fuckeral's, isn't it?

SWAT team leader Luke Palmer set up a parabolic mic facing the house and they listened for voices, hoping to count and place everyone inside.

When you look at older teams in the finals, Miami and San Antonio, they're not really the most explosive or athletic team but they're always in the right position defensively.

In action, be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

I want to be one of those players like Jason Kidd, who is always in tune with the game and sees several plays ahead.

Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy.

The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.

So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.

I'm an overall sound fighter, a boxer-puncher.

Lockhart glares at him furiously. "Sitrep, then get out." "What was that—" Pete begins, his words already in motion before he processes Lockhart's reaction. "That was the last we'll hear from a very brave woman. Or a very stupid one. Damn.

We had long passed the stage where the consequences of tactical armed response were weighed in advance.

'Mission' was a mind game. The ideal mission was getting in and getting out without anyone ever knowing we were there.

It's an Imperial attack, she said. Oh, he said. Can they do that? We're at war, she reminded him patiently. In war you can do just about anything the other side can't stop you from doing. How did you get in here, anyway? Oh, I cut myself an entry code a while back, he said, waving a vague hand, his eyes still on the tactical. Haven't had much to do lately. Can't you stop them? We're certainly going to try, Leia said grimly.