On Tactics Quotes

“defeat occurs when the enemy believes he is beaten. . . . Defeat is a psychological state.”
― B.A. Friedman, On Tactics: A Theory of Victory in Battle

“Boyd believed that if you could magnify the entropy of the enemy through deception, attrition, and most importantly the ability to make and implement decisions faster than the enemy can comprehend and react to them, entropy would overcome the enemy’s inherent energy and cause collapse or paralysis . . . that is, as long as you could overcome your own entropy.”
― B.A. Friedman, On Tactics: A Theory of Victory in Battle