Prince Conversation
A wild boar was sharpening his tusks on a tree trunk one day. A fox asked him why he did this when there was neither huntsman nor danger threatening him. …
Bold Cash
Do not trust the Horse, Trojans/ Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. – Laocoon in Virgil’s Aeneid Heraclitus said that war is the father of all …
Panic Play
War is the continuation of politics by other means. – CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ (1780-1831) Playing on people’s natural paranoia instead of threatening openly. Make the enemy think that they found …
Strategic Presence
When dark inertia increases, obscurity and inactivity, negligence and delusion, arise. When lucidity prevails, the self whose body dies enters the untainted worlds of those who know reality. When he …
Society Seduction
The book of Judges relates to a regular pattern of Israelites turning away from God, who then used a hostile tribe, the Midianites, to punish them. The liberating figure of …
Stress Response
Aware of this, the Gibeonites pretended to Joshua that they were not from the next city but rather a distant people. They engaged in a careful deception, appearing dishevelled and …
Advantages Creation
If punishment comes because we have made the wrong moral choices, then what are we to do about an agent who continues to be immoral despite recognizing the folly of …
Essential Pattern
“Pressing down the pillow” refers to one’s efforts not to let the head of one’s opponent rise. In battles based on martial strategy, it is taboo to let your opponent …
Indirect Detection
Moses increased his demands with the pressure. At the start, he asked only for a chance to pray, but this turned into a chance to escape. … A threat that …
The Love Trophy
In the meantime our good ship, with that perfect wind to drive her, fast approached the Sirens’ Isle. But now the breeze dropped, some power lulled the waves, and a …