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Varius Xeral
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Posted - 2013.05.19 19:54:00 -
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If you find your leaders quoting sun tzu and clausewitz and/or referencing their rl military experience, you're in a scrub organization doomed for mediocrity at best. |
Varius Xeral
Galactic Trade Syndicate
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Posted - 2013.05.19 20:45:00 -
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Don't eat the yellow snow
- Napoleon during the retreat from Moscow |
Varius Xeral
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Posted - 2013.05.19 21:27:00 -
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Schmata Bastanold wrote:Knowledge of SunTzu ends where blob starts.
Uhhh...you should reread your Sun Tzu then, bitter forum alt # 2390786
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Varius Xeral
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Posted - 2013.05.19 23:00:00 -
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Vortexo VonBrenner wrote:Wouldn't a blend of Kafka, Machiavelli, and Uncle Scrooge comics be better for EVE than ol' Tzu?
Anything to do with propaganda and motivation.
Even winning fights is only useful insofar as it motivates people to show up for the next one. Dominion mechanics means that your only goal is to completely overpower your enemy on 1-3 timers, and they'll never get the momentum back to challenge you again. Everything else is just maneuvering for those few decisive timers. For those brave few organizations you can try and delay the sov grind long enough for the enemy coalition to collapse on itself, but very few organizations can stand the geurilla playstyle and watching their precious sanctums burn.
I'm not well read in the area, but my guess would be late 20th century revolutionary texts. |
Varius Xeral
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Posted - 2013.05.20 16:11:00 -
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Six Six Six wrote:I won't read it either.
Most of it should be common sense anyway.
Seen too many bad managers in the past, where you can tell someone's removed the brain and inserted a text book.
This is what it comes down to. The kind of person who thinks they have some special insight into Eve warfare because they read Sun Tzu is likely kind of a knob. The fact that they are kind of a knob means they are going to be mediocre at best at Eve warfare.
It's really the attitude about the knowledge and it's applicability more than the knowledge itself. |
Varius Xeral
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Posted - 2013.05.20 16:14:00 -
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I'll add that this thread has shown a shocking mix of fun-making and genuine insight for GD. There may yet be hope for this forum section. |
Varius Xeral
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Posted - 2013.05.20 18:56:00 -
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Farrakhan Shabazz wrote:People in this thread are focusing too much on the "Sun Tzu" reference with bad attempts at humor and not enough on the primary point: "To what extend can Eve players learn from the advice, mistakes and successes of past military leaders." ( this question can also apply to economists, political leaders, etc.)
No, that's actually been the general consensus throughout the thread: that there is applicability from a wide range of ideas, but you have to be cleverer in the application to Eve than you do in the rote regurgitation of the original source. |
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