Alan
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http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/sp/pl-1969-02-16-battle-tactics-reiss-87.html
Well worth reading!
Partial excerpt:
BATTLE TACTICS
But there are also wars of attrition. We are engaged
in one where total destruction of us has been the enemy's aim
for, at this writing, 19 years. This is barbarian warfare,
thus the enemy must have had very positive fears and terrors
about us. Since he fought for total attrition. In this case
it is not safe to hope for any half-way win. We must ourselves
fight on the basis of total attrition of the enemy. So
never get reasonable about him. Just go all the way in and
obliterate him.
It is bad warfare to fight battles on your own terrain,
in your own subject area. It is not good to fight in the
territory of allies. Fight battles wherever possible only on
enemy terrain, in and about his subject and his people, not
ours. You can gauge your relative success by this. When
all your battles are fought on his terrain, you are winning.
A good general expends the maximum of enemy troops and
the minimum of his own. He makes the war costly to the
enemy, not to himself.
HCO PL 16.2.69 II
Reiss. 24.9.87 -2-
One cuts off enemy communications, funds, connections.
He deprives the enemy of political advantages, connections
and power. He takes over enemy territory. He raids and
harasses. All on a thought plane - press, public opinion,
governments, etc.
Seeing it as a battle, one can apply battle tactics to
thought actions.
Intelligence identifies targets and finds out enemy
plans and purposes, enemy connections, dispositions, etc.
It is fatal to attack a wrong enemy. But it is good tactics
to make the enemy attack wrong targets or persons himself.
Good intelligence pinpoints who when where what.
Good PRO plans an action and operations fights the battle.
Legal is a slow if often final battle arena. It eventually
comes down to legal in the end. If intelligence and PRO have
done well, then legal gets an easy win.
You can win a battle even without legal and by PRO alone.
You intend to win it without legal wherever possible.
The prize is "public opinion" where press is concerned.
The only safe public opinion to head for is they love us and
are in a frenzy of hate against the enemy. This means standard
wartime propaganda is what one is doing, complete with atrocity,
war crimes trials, the lot. Know the mores of your public
opinion, what they hate. That's the enemy. What they love.
That's you.
You preserve the image or increase it of your own troops
and degrade the image of the enemy to beast level.
Always be ready to parley but watch for tricks. Don't
give the enemy breathing space.
Capture and use his comm lines. A press magnate on your
side is a big win.
You have in one of these publicity wars all the factors
of modern wars complete with artillery, cavalry, infantry.
For example at this writing, all fighting has been on our
terrain; they knew our generals we didn't know theirs; they
had all the press, funds, government control. We are reversing
this. We are fighting now on their ground. But we have a
long way to go.
We will make it all the way providing we look on this in
terms of active battle and not as a "if we are saintly good we
will win." The people who win wars have a saintly image but
they win the war by clever and forceful use of the rules of
tactics, strategy and battle.
Wars are composed of many battles.
Never treat a war like a skirmish. Treat all skirmishes like wars.
L. Ron Hubbard.
Obviously the above has not worked out well for LRH, DM or the CofS - it has brought about the opposite - the complete vilification of LRH, DM and the CofS.
Just imagine if LRH had used the positive opposite - look for our friends - make love not war!
One adds to ones friends better communications, more funds, more connections.
He contributes to all and makes friends with all, he give the friends political advantages, connections
and power. He contributes to others territory. He helps and makes better. All on a thought plane - press, public opinion,
governments, etc.
Instead he wrote:
One cuts off enemy communications, funds, connections.
He deprives the enemy of political advantages, connections
and power. He takes over enemy territory. He raids and
harasses. All on a thought plane - press, public opinion,
governments, etc.
Alan
Well worth reading!
Partial excerpt:
BATTLE TACTICS
But there are also wars of attrition. We are engaged
in one where total destruction of us has been the enemy's aim
for, at this writing, 19 years. This is barbarian warfare,
thus the enemy must have had very positive fears and terrors
about us. Since he fought for total attrition. In this case
it is not safe to hope for any half-way win. We must ourselves
fight on the basis of total attrition of the enemy. So
never get reasonable about him. Just go all the way in and
obliterate him.
It is bad warfare to fight battles on your own terrain,
in your own subject area. It is not good to fight in the
territory of allies. Fight battles wherever possible only on
enemy terrain, in and about his subject and his people, not
ours. You can gauge your relative success by this. When
all your battles are fought on his terrain, you are winning.
A good general expends the maximum of enemy troops and
the minimum of his own. He makes the war costly to the
enemy, not to himself.
HCO PL 16.2.69 II
Reiss. 24.9.87 -2-
One cuts off enemy communications, funds, connections.
He deprives the enemy of political advantages, connections
and power. He takes over enemy territory. He raids and
harasses. All on a thought plane - press, public opinion,
governments, etc.
Seeing it as a battle, one can apply battle tactics to
thought actions.
Intelligence identifies targets and finds out enemy
plans and purposes, enemy connections, dispositions, etc.
It is fatal to attack a wrong enemy. But it is good tactics
to make the enemy attack wrong targets or persons himself.
Good intelligence pinpoints who when where what.
Good PRO plans an action and operations fights the battle.
Legal is a slow if often final battle arena. It eventually
comes down to legal in the end. If intelligence and PRO have
done well, then legal gets an easy win.
You can win a battle even without legal and by PRO alone.
You intend to win it without legal wherever possible.
The prize is "public opinion" where press is concerned.
The only safe public opinion to head for is they love us and
are in a frenzy of hate against the enemy. This means standard
wartime propaganda is what one is doing, complete with atrocity,
war crimes trials, the lot. Know the mores of your public
opinion, what they hate. That's the enemy. What they love.
That's you.
You preserve the image or increase it of your own troops
and degrade the image of the enemy to beast level.
Always be ready to parley but watch for tricks. Don't
give the enemy breathing space.
Capture and use his comm lines. A press magnate on your
side is a big win.
You have in one of these publicity wars all the factors
of modern wars complete with artillery, cavalry, infantry.
For example at this writing, all fighting has been on our
terrain; they knew our generals we didn't know theirs; they
had all the press, funds, government control. We are reversing
this. We are fighting now on their ground. But we have a
long way to go.
We will make it all the way providing we look on this in
terms of active battle and not as a "if we are saintly good we
will win." The people who win wars have a saintly image but
they win the war by clever and forceful use of the rules of
tactics, strategy and battle.
Wars are composed of many battles.
Never treat a war like a skirmish. Treat all skirmishes like wars.
L. Ron Hubbard.
Obviously the above has not worked out well for LRH, DM or the CofS - it has brought about the opposite - the complete vilification of LRH, DM and the CofS.
Just imagine if LRH had used the positive opposite - look for our friends - make love not war!
One adds to ones friends better communications, more funds, more connections.
He contributes to all and makes friends with all, he give the friends political advantages, connections
and power. He contributes to others territory. He helps and makes better. All on a thought plane - press, public opinion,
governments, etc.
Instead he wrote:
One cuts off enemy communications, funds, connections.
He deprives the enemy of political advantages, connections
and power. He takes over enemy territory. He raids and
harasses. All on a thought plane - press, public opinion,
governments, etc.
Alan
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