Out Fight the Enemy
The podcast discusses “outfighting” an enemy in warfare, building upon previous concepts of outthinking and outmaneuvering. It highlights the importance of combining weapons and tactics to overwhelm an opponent, referencing historical examples like Sun Tzu and World War I stormtroopers. The three key principles for outfighting are identified as combined arms, utilizing different weapon systems together to create no-win scenarios; maneuver, attacking simultaneously from unexpected directions to induce shock; and asymmetry, strategically engaging enemy strengths in terrain or situations where they are vulnerable to your own forces, illustrated by the myth of Antaeus. By integrating these elements, the goal is to achieve lethality or the capability to decisively defeat the enemy through a process described as “hunt, race, kill.”
