Posted on 05/27/2017 7:47:48 AM PDT by Punktmann
In general, you arrive in an open conflict situation in one of three ways. Someone unexpectedly comes after you, someone you were expecting to come after you does so or you decide to to go after someone yourself. The term conflict situation as used here covers all the sins; interpersonal strife, business rivalry, trade wars and plain old war, but the essential rules of them all are the same. In the first case, it’s a failure of perception on your part as to the aggressor’s true intentions and all that can be done is something along the lines of the best defense is a good immediate attack, but only as a holding action until you can come up with something more assured of success.
In the second case, whatever planned response you have swings into action. If your plan was sound, it should succeed as you designed it to do. Sometimes, what was originally a good planned response can fail because it hasn’t been updated to reflect changing circumstances while it’s been waiting in readiness. Like the von Schlieffen plan, it’s gathered too much dust.
The third case is by far the easiest to plan for because it always gives you first mover advantage, irrespective of whether the other party was expecting it or not. You consider their range of possible responses to your move and if they have a winning riposte, then it’s a bad plan. Pick your fight in cold blood, pick the ground and fight only when you know you’ll win.
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Don’t excerpt your own blogs. Others on this site will accuse you of blog-pimping, which none of us like, nor is it necessary.
If you are going to excerpt, perhaps you could include enough to at least start getting to the point of the headline - and I would think that you should be able to do that within the first 2 or 3 paragraphs.
I’m just saying...
Very good piece, very well written, erudite, even EXCEPT- if you are very good with words you should not throw crap on your work by not proofreading it. The piece is full of errors of the affect/effect, retrospective/retroactive variety. I guess it is some kind of literacy disability but I find it difficult to follow a piece that is full of solipsisms like this.
I used to admire you greatly, but that was from a long distance away.
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