Now, after some introspection, it is not difficult to see that these tactical and strategic statements are very definitely destructive in nature. Keeping these words in mind, while working backwards thru this presentation, one is left with the impression that the destructive attrition-maneuver-moral ideas played-out in the “Categories of Conflict” aren’t much different than the tactical and strategic ideas that we have just discussed. As a consequence, by stripping-down and recombining the ideas associated with both these conceptual streams, we can evolve an alternative portrait of ruin as follows: