Quotes about Tactics

A bad war is fought with a good mind.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.”

A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

So much in football is touching, feeling, walking through, writing it on boards, drawing Xs and Os. And all those are the best for me.

My father's approach to the most brutal and unambiguous social injustices during the civil rights struggle was rooted in nonviolence as a morally and tactically correct response.

When Joab saw the battle lines before him and behind him, he selected some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans.

they were archers using both the right and left hands to sling stones and shoot arrows; and they were Saul’s kinsmen from Benjamin):

Since finite games are played to be won, players make every move in the game in order to win it. Whatever is not done in the interest of winning is not part of the game. The constant attentiveness of finite players to the progress of the competition can lead them to believe that every move they make they must make.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.