Author: Robert Greene
Notes:
- Self Directed Warfare
- Your mind is the starting point of all war and strategy
- Steps to become a true strategist
- Become aware of the weakness and illness that can take hold of the mind
- Declare a kind of war on yourself to move forward
- Wage ruthless and continual battle on the enemies within you
- Declare war on your enemies
- Do not fight the last war
- Amidst the turmoil of events, do not lose your presence of mind
- Create a sense of urgency and desperation
- Organisational Warfare
- Before formulating a strategy or taking action, understand the structure of your group
- Avoid the snares of groupthink
- Segment your forces
- Transform your war into a crusade
- Defensive Warfare
- Pick your battles carefully
- Turn the tables
- Create a threatening presence
- Trade space for time
- Offensive Warfare
- Discrepancy between what you want to happen and what happens is "friction"
- Before friction can creep in, move to the offensive and force friction on your opponents
- Lose battles but win the war: Grand Strategy
- Know your enemy
- Overwhelm resistance with speed and suddenness
- Control the dynamic
- Hit them where it hurts
- Defeat them in detail
- Expose and attack your opponent's soft flank
- Envelop the enemy
- Manoeuvre them into weakness
- Negotiate while advancing
- Know how to end things
- Unconventional Warfare
- Greatest advantage comes from element of surprise
- Nothing stays new for long
- People who use unconventional methods are very hard to right
- Wave a seamless blend of fact and fiction
- Take the line of least expectation
- Occupy the moral high ground
- Deny them targets
- Seem to work for the interests of others while furthering your own
- Give your rivals enough rope to hang themselves
- Take small bites
- Penetrate their minds
- Destroy from within
- Dominate while seeming to submit
- Sow uncertainty and panic through acts of terror