Insurgencies are so often successful because they don’t play by the establishment rules. The guy in the picture in my previous post understands this instinctively.It isn’t surprising that the tournament directors found Eurisko’s strategies beyond the pale. It’s wrong to sink your own ships, they believed. And they were right. But let’s remember who made that rule: Goliath. And let’s remember why Goliath made that rule: when the world has to play on Goliath’s terms, Goliath wins.
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Political will is everything. If Goliath doesn’t have it, he can’t beat David. All David has to do is outlast him.Arreguín-Toft was analyzing conflicts in which one side was at least ten times as powerful—in terms of armed might and population—as its opponent, and even in those lopsided contests the underdog won almost a third of the time.
