Tactical Maneuver Quotes

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

Retreat Hell! We're just attacking in another direction.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

Oftentimes, you have to be able to throw it in order to run it.

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.

A masterful retreat is itself a victory.

From a military point of view it was a complete success

I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

Sometimes you have to lose a piece to win a game.

An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.

If the enemy leaves a door open, you must rush in.

In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho

When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.

General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy.

Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.