for in war the chief incalculable is the human will which manifests itself in resistance which in turn lies in the province of tactics strategy has not to overcome resistance except from nature its purpose is to diminish the possibility of resistance and it seeks to fulfill this purpose by exploiting the elements of movement and surprise now that’s cool and everything i would say that there’s definitely that’s a stretch because we’ve seen collect the collective will of a people change the outcome of strategic situations for sure so even though i said hey it’s it’s closer to it still can have a huge impact i mean look at vietnam it was like oh well we can beat them because we can kill 150 vietnamese soldiers and viet cong soldiers for every one of our people that killed so we’ll win no actually we won’t win right because guess what their collective will is freaking incredibly strong yeah but movement and surprise movement lies in the physical sphere and depends on calculation of the conditions of the time topography and transport capacity by transport capacity has meant both the both the means by which and the measure in which force can be moved and maintained okay so there’s the physical fear sphere of movement surprise lies in the psychological sphere and depends on a calculation far more difficult than in the physical sphere of the manifold conditions varying in each case which are likely to affect the will of the opponent so you got two things you’ve got movement and you’ve got surprise this is how we’re gonna kind of win this is how we’re gonna win by movement and surprise movement physical surprise psychological although strategy may aim more at exploiting movement than at exploiting surprise or conversely the two elements react on each other so even though they’re different spheres they’re still closely woven together movement generates surprise and surprise gives impetus to movement so this is jiu jitsu right if you surprise somebody they have to react to it so you can make someone move by surprising them with something for a movement which is accelerated or changes its direction inevitably carries with it a degree of surprise even though it be concealed while surprise smooths the path of movement by hindering the enemies counter measures and counter movements so if i surprise you you don’t have time to react to it you’re not defending it yeah this is obviously not something this guy was thinking about when i think about flying in stealth airplanes the psychology of that is what i what i have discovered and it’s true not just an airplane it’s true in every situation more often than not people’s reaction to being surprised is not the right reaction they don’t usually react well even when they react it’s still like an overreaction under reaction think about how you react it when you’re surprised are those usually like good smooth effective responses 100 yeah all the time and when when you look at stealth airplanes the advent of americans showing up with stealth airplanes and sort of the culminating event really was in desert storm when nobody even knew we had them and all of a sudden stealth airplanes were over baghdad dropping bombs and the iraqis didn’t under they did not understand what was happening and their reaction was obviously wrong now you know that they’re proliferated that’s why a significantly undersized force when you’re flying around in a stealth aircraft and then i’m fighting against you and your conventional aircraft and the first call you hear is hey the first four of your airplanes are all dead and and the psychological response to that is almost always the wrong response the reaction they they behave erratically they move in different direction they don’t know what to do the psychological response to surprise is almost always the wrong reaction and the power of creating that reaction in your opponents is really hard to overstate and that’s really one of the things that stealth airplanes have allowed us to do is get our opponents to behave incorrectly to give us an even more of an advantage you’re gonna off-balance them somehow yeah because what you just said when you say they either over-react or under-react guess what you’re either you’re off-balance right a balanced measured response would be like okay we didn’t really get them off balance but you either overreact or you under-react and through surprise you cause them to move too far in one direction too far in the other direction that’s what’s going to happen and that’s what we’re going to take advantage of and you’ve explained this a ton like if i attack your arm and you under react to a point where you do not almost don’t react at all and you just let me have it then i may actually culminate with an arm bar yeah but more than likely you’re going to overreact and i want you to overreact to that so i can attack something else but it’s like you said it’s it’s the lack of a balanced response it’s usually an overreaction usually that reveals a weakness somewhere else that i can then exploit yep
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