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World War I · Guerrilla warfare

(à la T. E. Lawrence)

Action

  • Gain support of population. Must “arrange the minds” of friend, foe and neutral alike. Must “get inside their minds”.
  • Must “be an idea or thing invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like a gas” (inconspicuousness and fluidity-of-action). Must be an “attack-in-depth”.
  • Tactics “should be tip-and-run, not pushes but strokes” with “use of the smallest force in the quickest time at the farthest place”.
  • Should be a war of detachment (avoiding contact and presenting a threat everywhere) using mobility/fluidity-of-action and environmental background (vast unknown desert) as basis for “never affording a target” and “never on the defensive except by accident and in error”.

Idea

  • Disintegrate existing regime’s ability to govern.

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