Adversary Analysis Quotes

Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total.

Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.

No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.

A fatal mistake in war is to underrate the strength, feeling and resources of an enemy.

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves

Know the enemy and know yourself.

If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle

You have to know your opponent and take him out of his game.

In cases of defense, it is best to weigh the enemy more than he seems.

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and want to bear less danger, the more the enemy is weak or the less the enemy is cautious, so much more must you esteem him.

The mind of your own enemy, the pupil, is working away from you, as keenly and eagerly as is the mind of the commander on the other side from the scientific general. Just what the respective enemies want and think, and what they know or do not know, are as hard things for the teachers as for the general to find out.

If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling conflict.

With difficulty he is beaten who can estimate his own forces and those of his enemy.

It's always tricky to play against a player who you've never played against.

I like to go on the court and have a little bit of information about my opponent.

Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his movement.

Anyone that goes to battle goes to battle knowing the mindset and tactics of their enemies.

It's best to know what the enemy are saying.

The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.

The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.

When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!

Only way to eliminate the element of surprise is to know yourself and now your adversary.

One of the surest ways of forming good combinations in war would be to order movements only after obtaining perfect information of the enemy's proceedings. In fact, how can any man say what he should do himself; if he is ignorant what his adversary is about?