Military strategies that may inform our actions as we move forward.

Principle of Mass

You cannot do everything at once. You cannot be everywhere at once.

You must choose one or two things where you are going to concentrate your energy.

Principle of Maneuver.

Movement and positioning must always be undertaken with the intent to place the enemy at a disadvantage.

The ability to move quickly can enable a small force to defeat a vastly superior force.

Patton believed there was nothing more terrifying than the sound of enemy fire at your rear.

He would mass his tanks for a full frontal assault, and when the enemy moved forward to meet the assault, he would swing an entire tank column in a circular maneuver around the enemy flank to their rear.

As soon as the enemy heard fire from the rear, they began to disintegrate and collapse.

Rapid encirclement. Patton did this time and time again as he rolled across France.

Principle of Continuous Offensive.

You are constantly in motion. Always trying something, if one thing doesn't work switch to something else.

It puts probability on your side. Trying more and different things than the enemy.

Mongol Empire was largest in world.

Mongols always vastly outnumbered. Each army consisting of ~20K cavalry.

Because they moved so quickly and use deception so well, they were able to encircle and defeat vastly superior forces, time after time.

Mongol siege. Surround walled city. Ask for surrender. If no, cut off all supplies

Initiate series of probes against the walls of the city in different places.

Most vulnerable place in wall identified.

Mongols divided their army into three shifts and begin the attack around the clock until the wall fell.

Once the wall fell, the city was quickly overrun.

Then they'd go on to the next city.

What we can learn here is to probe for vulnerable areas to exploit, concentrate our efforts on those, if something is not working, be quick to adapt and change, and when we achieve our objectives, when we breach the walls, we move on to the next target, and so on.

Just some thoughts.