The Superiority Trap

How the weak guy wins.

In history we have tons of David vs Goliath stories were the stronger entity loses to a “weaker” one. Do you ever ask yourself why this happens? Everyone knows the David vs Goliath story but that does not stop these situations from repeating themselves. The Greeks successfully defending against the Achaemenid Persians, Haitians revolting against the French Empire and winning. Why does this keep happening?

Marine, Afghanistan

Paper Targets

“Paper targets don’t shoot back” is a poplar phrase in the gun/military world. You pose a non human target a bunch of questions and it never has an answer for you, nor does it pose you any questions back. As long as you’re somewhat competent, you can make anything look good on paper. Kind of like a boxer hitting pads, anyone can look good on pads. Now, what happens when those pads start posing you questions? Will you have the right answer?

The reality of life is every move has a counter. Now whether you can figure it out in time and execute is completely up to you. A huge aspect people have the tendency to overlook is the human one. You can have the most insane technology gap but it doesn’t change this fact: The constant variable in all wars is that there are humans on both sides. You can change everything, the weapons the helicopters the spears, it wont matter. You’re still facing a human, and that human is just as smart as you are.