Fidel Castro Quotes

In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.

By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes, he prevents the enemy from anticipating his purpose. At the critical moment, the leader of an army acts like one who has climbed up a height and then kicks away the ladder behind him.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

Sometimes the hardest thing about committing the perfect crime can be keeping your genius to yourself.

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.

I try to keep everything under wraps. Everything I can do to make sure people don't know what they're getting themselves into, I will do it.

I always treat camo as a solid.

To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night.

Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.

The military has no constant form, just as water has no constant shape - adapt as you face the enemy, without letting them know beforehand what you are going to do.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.

And finally, and most importantly, the next time we go to war, don't give a specific reason for the war that the left can seize upon and later flog us with it ad nauseam, just do it. Remember, the first rule of Fight Club is that you don't talk about Fight Club.

It is through the dispositions of an army that its condition may be discovered. Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory,; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat.

One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.

Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight.

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.

I want as much time in the darkness as I can possibly have. The darkness provides cover, the darkness provides places to hide and the darkness provides comfort. Darkness usually comes around dinner, but dinner would be too obvious.

To keep your actions and your plans secret always has been a very good thing . .. Marcus Crassus said to one who asked him when he was going to move the army: 'Do you believe that you will be the only one not to hear the trumpet?

If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it nor the wise make plans against it.

He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.