Second impression

Transients

  • Observe, Orient, Decide and Act more inconspicuously, more quickly, and with more irregularity…

or put another way

  • Operate inside adversary’s Observation–Orientation–Decision–Action loops or get inside his Mind–Time–Space.

Permits one to

Intentions

  • Probe and test adversary to unmask strengths, weaknesses, maneuvers, and intentions.
  • Employ a variety of measures that interweave menace–uncertainty–mistrust with tangles of ambiguity–deception–novelty as basis to sever adversary’s moral ties and disorient…
  • Select initiative (or response) that is least expected.
  • Establish focus of main effort together with other effort and pursue directions that permit many happenings, offer many branches, and threaten alternative objectives.
  • Move along paths of least resistance (to reinforce and exploit success).
  • Exploit, rather than disrupt or destroy, those differences, frictions, and obsessions of adversary organism that interfere with his ability to cope…
  • Subvert, disorient, disrupt, overload, or seize adversary’s vulnerable, yet critical, connections, centers, and activities… in order to dismember organism and isolate remnants for mop-up or absorption.

Generate uncertainty, confusion, disorder, panic, chaos… to shatter cohesion, produce paralysis and bring about collapse.

  • Become an extraordinary commander.
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