Comments on: Strategic Assessments (9) http://blog.arbita.net/index.php/2007/08/22/strategic-assessments-9/ Arbita The Way Forward Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:18:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Joel Rosenberg http://blog.arbita.net/index.php/2007/08/22/strategic-assessments-9/#comment-328 Joel Rosenberg Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:41:52 +0000 http://blog.arbita.net/index.php/2007/08/22/strategic-assessments-9/#comment-328 Yup. And it's worth remembering, I think, that relative strengths will, in practice, be asymmetrical -- the competitor may be stronger in A, B, and C, but if the key factor in a given competition is (or can be made to be) D . . . . . . to fast-forward from Sun Tzu to the Gates of Fire: it doesn't matter if the enemy can bring 100,000 troops to bear, if the bottleneck is only twenty meters wide, and you can dominate it. Just don't let them get around behind you, or, if they do, have a real good breakfast . . . :) Yup. And it’s worth remembering, I think, that relative strengths will, in practice, be asymmetrical — the competitor may be stronger in A, B, and C, but if the key factor in a given competition is (or can be made to be) D . . .

. . . to fast-forward from Sun Tzu to the Gates of Fire: it doesn’t matter if the enemy can bring 100,000 troops to bear, if the bottleneck is only twenty meters wide, and you can dominate it. Just don’t let them get around behind you, or, if they do, have a real good breakfast . . . :)

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