war

Using akido on the landscape

I have spoken, on a more mundane level, of using akido on the landscape, of rolling with the blows, turning adversity into strength, and using everything positively. The other approach is to karate the landscape, to try to make it yield by using our strength, and striking many hard blows. But if we attack nature we attack (and ultimately destroy) ourselves.

Bill Mollison Introduction to Permaculture
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Always allow them an escape route

When you surround the enemy
Always allow them an escape route
They must see that there is
An alternative to death.

Sun Tzu The Art of War
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Your intention to cut

A Quote by Miyamoto Musashi

The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy’s cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him.
1. Rationality: From AI to Zombies
2. Cutting through to the truth
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- intent
The McNamara fallacy

A Definition
en.wikipedia.org

The McNamara fallacy, named for Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, involves making a decision based solely on quantitative observations (or metrics) and ignoring all others. The reason given is often that these other observations cannot be proven.

The fallacy refers to McNamara’s belief as to what led the United States to defeat in the Vietnam War—specifically, his quantification of success in the war (e.g., in terms of enemy body count), ignoring other variables.
1. Artifice, blindness, and suicide
The Art of War

A Book by Sun Tzu
1. Always allow them an escape route
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