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 …
Category: Strategy
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 …
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 …
Reverse Strategy
… The ninth plague, three days of complete darkness, was most alarming for a kingdom that worshipped the sun and dreaded a persistent eclipse. Like the third and the sixth, …
High At Dawn
One classic response to a particularly vicious beanball was exemplified by a play Jackie Robinson made in the summer of 1953. Sal Maglie of the New York Giants was “Sal …
Incrementalism Pillars
Some Backward Steps – One very forward step in education is taken when a man emerges from his superstitions and religious ideas and fears and, for instance, no longer believes …