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Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.
A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove. When he meets another retaliator he plays like a dove. A retaliator is a conditional strategist. His behaviour depends on the behaviour of his opponent.
Preparation is a process.
Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.
Mutually assured destruction.
Something was about to happen.
Initiate. Complete.
Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.
be aggressive, BE-BE Aggressive! B-E
A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E
Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon
as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.
Do the unexpected, attack the unprepared.
You have to be strategic in your action
Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.
Preparation:
allows you to prevent ...
the intensity of the ordeal.
When the situation demands action, know the end of the action before you start the action
Like everything else, Preppiness begins in the home.
Make your decisions promptly. It is better to act quickly even though your tactics are not the best.
Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind.
The Statesman who, knowing his instrument to be ready, and seeing War inevitable, hesitates to strike first is guilty of a crime against his country.
Every thought precedes an action.
The cause of war is preparation for war.
What's retaliate?" asked Aphasia.
"It means, kill most of the enemy, and let the survivors apologies.
The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate.
Before all else, be armed.
At certain crucial moments - an emergency or an opportunity - one must act first and think later.
The readiness is all
What God predetermine proves true!
The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.
This is the time to be super aggressive
ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!
The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
Throughout the ages, effective results in war have rarely been attained unless the
approach has had such indirectness as to ensure the opponent's unreadyness to meet it.
The indirectness has usually been physical, and always psychological.
The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.
Be quick to take advantage of an advantage.
Make the basic shot-making decision early, clearly and firmly, and then ritualize all the necessary acts of preparation.
An imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan.
Thought precedes actions.
In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.
Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.
Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.
We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be done so as to be sure Japan is put into the wrong and makes the first bad move ... The question was how we should maneuver them [the Japanese] into the position of firing the first shot.
Attack the enemy's strategy.
prestidigitator,
The Ultimate decision, the fastest decision there is, is ACTION!
Before Any Fall, The Original Plan Is Already Initiated For His Purpose
This is passive-aggression in action.
Predilection, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.
If it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have given you a proper course to pursue, and if that course is to counterattack, carry it out with everything you've got! Be indignant. Be angry. Be aggressive.
In the battle between planning and action, action wins.
Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.
I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you're sure of what you're doing and you're working with allies.
Defeat the enemies strategy.
The plan itself is opportunism. There is no plan before that.
However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.
Be quick without hurrying.
Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off.
For every forward action, there is an equally important forward reaction.
Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.
To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding a drop of blood.
Attack is the proof that your enemy anticipates your success.
It wasn't premeditated. It was what needed to be done. So I did it.
Foulgrin's Rule Twenty-Three: tactics without strategy are useless.
In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack
the
direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to
an endless series of maneuvers.
Sometimes advance is the best form of retreat.
"So, passive-aggressive is how you're going to play this?"
"Well, it's either that or aggressive-aggressive. And I'd prefer not to be arrested for domestic violence today. Maybe tomorrow.
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
Like a cobra, your strike should be felt before it is seen.
A mixture of rapture and cowardice. No action, but all that quivering!
Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.
In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.
A winning effort begins with preparation.
He who hesitates is usually fucked!
The one who anticipates the action wins. The one who does not, loses.
There's only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable target.
When conventional tactics are altered unexpectedly according to the situation, they take on the element of surprise and increase in strategic value .
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.
When under attack, it is necessary to evaluate the situation and to decide instantly upon a proper course of action, to be carried out immediately with all the force you can bring to bear. He who hesitates is indeed lost. Do not soliloquize. Do not delay. Be decisive.
We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I realize that the king is not in danger.
The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
Approach the enemy with the attitude of defeating him without delay.
Tactics are manipulative.
sooner begun is sooner done
Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation
Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.
He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.
Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.
Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
There is really no substitute for a well thought out and perfectly executed plan of action.
When in fear, it is safest to force the attack.
The only sensible thing to do when you are attacked is, as Napoleon once said, to counter-attack.
The most efficient way to use military power is to disrupt emerging powers before they can become even marginally threatening.
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
Don't prepare. Begin.
Behavior precedes belief - that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the results, and then they believe that it is the right thing to do ... implementation precedes buy-in; it does not follow it.