How to perform a Counter-Attack?
There are problems with “Moving first” – initiating the attack. It often places us at a disadvantage, exposing our strategy and limiting our options.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD)
Counter Attack
- Holding Back – Power
- Wait for the right moment
- Let the enemy move first
- Unexpected
- Flexible – from any angle
- Baiting aggressive enemies into rash attacks – place them in weak positions
- Using enemies weakness
- Impatience
- Eagerness to get at us
- Throwing enemies off-balance
In defensive strategy, the basic military axiom is to attack the enemy’s weakness with our strength.
Strategic Warriors
- Play for the long-term
- Focus on what they have
- Strengths
- Creativity
- Timing masters
- When to slow down
- Retrench and cutback
- Outlast opponents
- Fight the peasants’ war – try to get the maximum out of the minimum
Abundance makes me poor. Ovid ( 43BC – 17AD)
Victory is about how we use what we have, not simply accumulating more things, tools, instruments, and techniques.
“According With” Technique:
- Leading the enemy to flaws
- Understand the Enemy
- Desires
- Advance
- Draw them forward and cover
- Become completely flexible
- Display a weakness – induce their advancing
- Withdraw
- Release and capture
- Open an escape route for their retreat
- Disperse
- Advance
- Expectations
- Awesomeness
- Be respectful
- Substantially plan for their laxity
- Strong Front
- Establish our own front lines far away
- Observe their arrogance then exploit it
- Assume a defensive posture
- Awesomeness
- Beliefs
- Desires
- Appearance – Conforming to the enemy until the situation becomes exploitable
Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack. Sun Tzu (544BC – 496BC)
Inspired by The 33 Strategies of War – Greene