33 Strategies of War

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Self Directed Warfare

1) Declare War on Your Enemies: The Polarity Strategy. To fight you must know and identify your opponents.

2) Do Not Fight the Last War: The Guerrilla-War-of-the-Mind Strategy. Tactics age, keep tactics fresh and
always develop new ones.

3) Amidst the Turmoil of Events, Do Not Lose Your Presence of Mind: The Counterbalance Strategy. You
must stay focused, define your goals and have the confidence to achieve those goals. With this in place, strive toward that goal relentlessly.

4) Create a Sense of Urgency and Desperation: The Death-Ground Strategy. When there are no other
options, people fight harder. If the choice is life or death they have nothing to lose.

Part IV: Offensive Warfare

12) Lose The Battles But Win The War: Grand Strategy. Have a bigger plan.

13) Know Your Enemy: The Intelligence Strategy. Know your opponent's moves and do not let your motives
be known. Understand their way of thinking

14) Overwhelm Resistance With Speed and Suddenness: The Blitzkrieg Strategy. Slow methodical start with a well-planned attack, move fast
and sure.

15) Control the Dynamic: Forcing Strategies. Be in control. Be assertive. Control your opponent's mind.
Move them into your territory.

16) Hit Them Where it Hurts: The Center of Gravity Strategy. Attack the central point, be it the command
center, supply lines, belief system. Capture and destroy it.

17) Defeat Them in Detail: The Divide and Conquer Strategy. Look at the parts and determine how to control
the individual parts, create dissension and leverage it.

18) Expose and Attack Your Enemy's Soft Flank: The Turning Strategy. Bait for a frontal attack, get your
opponent to extend his ranks and in the distraction have your forces attack his exposed flank or rear.

19) Envelop The Enemy: The Annihilation Strategy. Maintain constant pressure on your opponent to defeat
their will power.

20) Maneuver Them Into Weakness: The Ripening For the Sickle Strategy. Continue calculated moves in
your position. This will enable you to control the situation and bewilder and exhaust your opponent.

21) Negotiate While Advancing: The Diplomatic-War Strategy. When negotiating a settlement you should not
let up on the pressure to advance. This provides you more to negotiate with and does not give your opponent time to regroup.

22) Know How To End Things: The Exit Strategy. Know when you are beat and cut your losses. Know how to
win with flair and bring a positive conclusion to the encounter; reducing your opponents in the future.

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