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p.24 I maintain that the way the individual perceives the environment is crucial for his orientation
and interaction with it.
p.29 Interaction permits vitality and growth while isolation leads to decay and disintegration.
p.38 our whole approach has been one of pulling things apart and putting them back together until something
new and different is created.
p.45 We can’t just look at our own personal experiences or use the same mental recipes over and over
again; we’ve got to look at other disciplines and activities and relate or connect them to what we know from
our experiences and the strategic world we live in.
if we can do this
•We will be able to surface new
repertoires and (hopefully) develop a Fingerspitzengef�hl for folding our adversaries back inside themselves, morally-mentally-physically—so
that they can neither appreciate nor cope with what’s happening—without suffering the same fate ourselves.
p.47 To cut them off from one another we should penetrate their system by being unpredictable,
otherwise they can counter our efforts.
•Mentally we can isolate our adversaries by presenting them with
ambiguous, deceptive, or novel situations, as well as by operating at a tempo or rhythm they can neither make out
nor keep up with. Operating inside their O-O-D-A loops will accomplish just this by disorienting
or twisting their mental images so that they can neither appreciate nor cope with what’s really going on.
p.50 Vitality and growth, with the opportunity to shape and adapt to unfolding events thereby influence
the ideas and actions of others.
p.58 What is strategy?
A mental tapestry of changing intentions for harmonizing and focusing our efforts as a basis for
realizing some aim or purpose in an unfolding and often unforeseen world of many bewildering events and many contending interests.
What is the aim or purpose of strategy?
To improve our ability to shape and adapt to unfolding circumstances, so that we (as individuals or as groups
or as a culture or as a nation-state) can survive on our own terms.
What is the central theme and what are the key ideas that underlie strategy?
The central theme is one of interaction/isolation while the key ideas are the moral-mental-physical means
toward realizing this interaction/isolation.
How do we play to this theme and activate these ideas?
By an instinctive see-saw of analysis and synthesis across a variety of domains, or across competing/independent
channels of information, in order to spontaneously generate new mental images or impressions that match-up with an unfolding
world of uncertainty and change.
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