Sunday, June 21, 2009

Warfare - Plus ca change. Persuasion, Resistance, Special Forces. Architecture. Greed. Codes, Warriors.

By Dint:

Persuasion for the cause
War as a Big Game. Condition the Children. Or is it Necessary?
Personality types, hard-wiring, conditioning, how much is necessary to counter the pathological haters, and how much can be diminished as to conflict, by training.

War Promotion.  Fraud and Deception

Resistance
Czech paratroopers, other resistance, WWII Prague   Assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich.
First French Resistor

Special Forces
Hussars, Winged Cavalry, old Poland, other Eastern Europe  A/k/a Husaria, Husarz.  The frames on the shoulders and backs were lined with feathers that made a hmmmmwhrrr sound as they rode. The sound preceded the sight.

Architecture
Castles: Warfare Learning Tool. Strategy and Murder Holes  Any castle will do. Defense and offense. Try Blarney. Liddell Hart's WWI work (uses of indirection; upset the enemy's equilibrium); Bunratty's little staircases in reverse.

Role of Greed in Outcome
Otkell, Son of Skarf, Icelandic Saga.  From Burnt Njall's Saga, events 900 AD in Nordic-Viking Iceland, written perhaps 1100 AD.  A man whose greed was simply circumvented by the group's inspired leader, a tactic of indirection leading to a better result than confrontation

Warrior Types
Moscow's Black Widows:  Female Warrior Tradition, Caucasus.

Uses of Code to Rally Sympaticos
JPMorganChase and Code of the Hand.  Don't wage war without codes.  Where's the fun?

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