The minds that need to be conquered
Peloni: Highly recommended article. In war, every advantage must be employed to secure the enemies subjugation. In honor based societies, humiliation is likely the most effective tool to achieve this point, and those who fail to acknowledge this, or worse, those who choose to not employ it, have already ceded the greatest victory possible to their enemies. The revelation of the breaking of Nasrallah was a supreme victory in the war against the Iranian crescent, and yet, if acknowledging and promoting this fact is judged to be too distasteful, the victory of this momentous event will be passed to the Barbarians, an eventuality which should be unthinkable, even as it is inevitable when Western sensitives are preferred in a war against a society which only fears the expression of being publicly shamed.
In honour-shame cultures, the end of war means one side humiliates the other.
Retired United States Lieutenant-General Ben Hodges is fond of saying, at risk of belabouring the obvious, a soldier’s will to fight is at least as important as what weapon he has. It is a wisdom as ancient as war itself, and recalls San Tzu’s famous aphorism, “To conquer your enemy, you need to conquer his mind first.” The question that follows from this is, how do you erode a soldier’s will to fight, i.e., conquer his mind? Some answers, such as the Maori Haka and the Zulu Indlamu, do so by terrifying the will to fight out of their enemies.
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