Goals

Usage examples of objectives.

We both know Jeremy taught you to be honest with yourself where your objectives and tactics are concerned.

Of course, it helped that, with the exception of Grendelsbane, all of those objectives lay within no more than a hundred and twenty light-years of Trevor's Star.

If we destroy that force, then we can spread out from Trevor's Star and gather in all of the other objectives easily, because they won't have anything in the area that could possibly stop us.

I don't see anything they could do that would actually stop us, but they could certainly concentrate sufficient forces on the more critical objectives to make it much more expensive for us to take them.

Even those who would have agreed with his objectives would turn on him like starving wolves.

And the consequences are that there's a Havenite fleet, of unknown size and strength, at a currently unknown position, for the purposes of carrying out a mission whose objectives I think we can all guess with a fair degree of accuracy.

Theisman's plan was too good, its objectives too shrewdly chosen, for that.

Unfortunately, like the missile loads his LACs were carrying, Attack Plan Delta-Three, was purely generic, little more than a vague set of objectives and procedures.

If she'd split her forces to cover two objectives in the first place, she would have placed the larger force to cover the more important one.

As we begin our final preparations, however, it becomes more and more likely our actual objectives will be recognized.

We'll have essentially a free hand in selecting our objectives and timing our operations.

They're not just all ex-SS goons who've gone to earth, hoping for a change in the political climate more favorable to their objectives, either.

But if we're going to do it anyway, we might as well accomplish as many objectives at once as we can.

Because they've had to deploy so much of their strength to cover other, secondary objectives, they'll be significantly outnumbered at the point of contact.

And that attacking fleet would have been able to begin building an acceleration advantage towards its objectives while Home Fleet was still getting itself organized.