Patterns of Conflict
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| Works of John Boyd |
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And the Soviets, particularly Marx-Engels, understood what he meant, though it’s not in his book. Unequal or uneven distribution is the basis for getting at it. If you remember, for you people Sun Tzu even said before these people, remember what he said: he who tries to prepare and reinforce everywhere, is everywhere weak. And later on, Frederick the Great said he who defends everywhere defends nowhere. And Napoleon another [unintelligible]. And that might be where they come up with the idea of concentration, in other words we’re going to concentrate, we don’t want to [unintelligible]. You got to be very careful when you do something like this. There’s another way of looking at it here, I’ll show you in a minute.