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Part I

SELF-DIRECTED WARFARE

 1: Declare war on your enemies: Polarity strategy

2: Do not fight the last war: Guerilla-war-of-the-mind strategy

3: Amidst the turmoil of events, do not lose your presence of mind: Counterbalance strategy

4: Create a sense of urgency and desperation: Death-ground strategy

Part II

ORGANIZATIONAL WARFARE

5: Avoid the snares of groupthink: Command-and-control strategy

6: Segment your forces: Controlled-chaos strategy

7: Transform your war into a crusade: Morale strategy

Part III

DEFENSIVE WARFARE

8: Pick your battles carefully: Perfect-economy strategy

9: Turn the tables: Counterattack strategy

10: Create a threatening presence: Deterrence strategy

11: Trade space for time: Non-Engagement strategy

Part IV

OFFENSIVE WARFARE

12: Lose battles, but win the war: Grand strategy

13: Know your enemy: Intelligence strategy

14: Overwhelm resistance with speed and suddenness: Blitzkrieg strategy

15: Control the dynamic: Forcing strategy

16: Hit them where it hurts: Center-of-gravity strategy

17: Defeat them in detail: Divide and conquer strategy

18: Expose and attack your opponent’s soft flank: Turning strategy

19: Envelop the enemy: Annihilation strategy

20: Maneuver them into weakness: Ripening for the sickle strategy

21: Negotiate while advancing: Diplomatic war strategy

22: Know how to end things: Exit strategy

Part V

UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE

23: Weave a seamless blend of fact and fiction: Misperception strategy

24: Take the line of least expectation: Ordinary-Extraordinary strategy

25: Occupy the moral high ground: Righteousness strategy

26: Deny them targets: The Strategy of the Void

27: Seem to work for the interests of others while furthering your own: Alliance strategy

28: Give your rivals enough rope to hang themselves: One-upmanship strategy

29: Take small bites: Fait Accompli strategy

30: Penetrate their minds: Communication strategy

31: Destroy from within: The Inner Front strategies

32: Dominate while seeming to submit: Passive-Aggression strategy

33: Sow uncertainty and panic through acts of terror: Chain Reaction strategy