tactics quotes

To Sun-tzu and the ancient Chinese, doing something extraordinary had little effect without a setup of something ordinary. You had to mix the two – to fix your opponent’s expectations with some banal, ordinary maneuver, a comfortable pattern that they would then expect you to follow.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone’s goal is to score points.