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Lawrence’s second element, the “biological,” concerned the components of war, “sensitive and illogical” human beings. Because of unknown human factors, commanders are forced to hold a body of men in reserve as a safeguard, thus stretching thin their other human resources. Lawrence worked to magnify his enemy’s ignorance: “We were to contain the ene
... See moreA. R. B. Linderman • Rediscovering Irregular Warfare
As the example of the late Soviet Union illustrated so well, until a few years ago it was possible for states to exercise great power in the world even while wasting resources on a massive scale. When returns to violence are high and rising, magnitude means more than efficiency. Larger entities tend to prevail over smaller ones. Those governments t
... See moreJames Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
strategy is a mixture of policy and action designed to surmount a crucial challenge
Richard Rumelt • The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists
In the 1950s, Israel consolidated a comprehensive national security concept that consisted of three elements: deterrence, early warning, and overbalance. At the basis of this concept stood the realization that Israel was inherently inferior to its enemies, and military strength was vital to ensuring its existence and security.
Ephraim Lapid • The Israeli Intelligence Community
Tyler Cowen • A few implications - Marginal REVOLUTION
If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
T. E. Lawrence organized his thoughts on guerrilla warfare into three “elements, one algebraical, one biological, a third psychological.”169 In the case of the first, he notes that “perhaps a hundred and forty thousand” square miles of territory lay open to the Arabs in the southern Turkish empire. “How would the Turks defend all that?”170 The numb
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