Solon, youtube/watch?v=qJ_MGWio-vc “There is no greater proof of the abilities of a general than to investigate, with the utmost care, into the natural abilities of his opponent.” What the judge does is to restore equality. The element of surprise The Greeks have Achillies When Achilles was a boy, the seer Calchas prophesied that the city of Troy could not be taken without his help. Thetis knew that, if her son went to Troy, he would die an early death… Compared with your mother and father and all the rest of your ancestors your country is something far more precious, more venerable, more sacred, & held in greater honor both among gods and all reasonable minds. --Plato, Crito Military strategy is a collective name for planning the conduct of warfare. Derived from the Greek strategos, strategy was seen as the art of the general. Military strategy deals with the planning and conduct of campaigns, the movement and disposition of forces, and the deception of the enemy. The father of modern strategic study, Carl von Clausewitz, defined military strategy as the employment of battles to gain the end of war. Liddell Harts definition put less emphasis on battles, defining strategy as the art of distributing and applying military means to fulfill the ends of policy Hence, both gave the preeminence to political aims over military goals, ensuring civilian control of the military. Military strategy was one of a triumvirate of arts or sciences that govern the conduct of warfare; the others being tactics, the execution of plans and manœuvering of forces in battle, and logistics, the maintenance of an army. The border line between strategy and tactics is blurred and sometimes categorisation of a decision is a matter of almost personal opinion. There is no greater proof of the abilities of a general than to investigate, with the utmost care, into the natural abilities of his opponent. Machiavelli concludes his letter to Vettori thus: “And as to this little thing [his book], when it has been read it will be seen that during the fifteen years I have given to the study of statecraft I have neither slept nor idled; and men ought ever to desire to be served by one who has reaped experience at the expense of others. And of my loyalty none could doubt, because having always kept faith I could not now learn how to break it; for he who has been faithful and honest, as I have, cannot change his nature; and my poverty is a witness to my honesty.” … The great lawgiver, Solon, revered universally as one of the seven sages of Greece, who lived between, say 630 and 560 BC, made a currency reform. At the time Athens was ruled by an aristocracy that had excluded the middle class, reduced the lower classes to debt serfs, and was itself split into factions. Chapter V - The Prince Whenever those city-states which have been acquired as stated have been accustomed to live under their own laws …, there are three courses for those who wish to hold them: the first is to ruin them, the next is to reside there in person, the third is to permit them to live under their own laws, drawing a tribute, and establishing within it an oligarchy which will keep it friendly to you. Because such a government, being created by the prince, knows that it cannot stand without his friendship and interest, and does it utmost to support him; and therefore he who would keep a city accustomed to freedom will hold it more easily by the means of its own citizens than in any other way. There are, for example, the Spartans and the Romans. On County and District Court Theocrats 325 A.D. – The Counsel’s Political Vote: After a long and bitter debate, a vote was finally taken and it was with a majority show of hands that Judas Khrestus and Rabbi Jesus both became god - 161 votes to 157. A new god was proclaimed and ‘officially’ ratified by Emperor Constantine. That purely political act of deification effectively and legally placed Hesus and Krishna among the Roman gods as one individual composite.” Tony Bushby “Krishna (Krishna is Sanskrit for Christ), and thus Hesus Krishna would be the official name of the new Roman god. A vote was taken and it was with a majority show of hands (161 votes to 157) that both divinities became one God. Following longstanding heathen custom, Constantine used the official gathering and the Roman apotheosis decree to legally deify two deities as one, and did so by democratic consent. A new god was proclaimed and officially ratified by Constantine (Acta Concilii Nicaeni, 1618). That purely political act of deification effectively and legally placed Hesus and Krishna among the Roman gods as one individual composite.” The Parallels Pertain ... Polybius, Histories. Aristotle, Ethics. pantheon.org/articles/a/achilles.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_strategy Polybius, Histories The Prince, Machiavelli. The Birth of Coinage, Robert A. Mundell (September 1999). Machiavelli, The Prince - CITIES OR PRINCIPALITIES BEFORE THEY WERE ANNEXED. taroscopes/astro-theology/astrotheology.html nexusmagazine/articles/NewTestament.html
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