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CHANGING THE GAME IN ASYMMETRIC CONFLICT
Across civilizations we have been brought up on the belief that “size does matter”. As a society we believe in power and size to win a war. Bigger and better warfare resources always guarantee success in the warring arena. We find similar occurrences in other fields like sports (which to my mind is a civilized form of war!). It is always assumed that the biggest and the most ferocious of the sumo wrestlers will always win.
But we only need to take a closer look at history to find that the underdog has enough wins against insurmountable odds. So do we then stop believing that “size does matter”? Does this mean that the time of the underdog has arrived?
According to the political scientist, Ivan Arreguin-Toft, in the last 200 years of war history, the underdogs or the “Davids” have had a 28.5% success rate against the “Goliaths.”
The million-dollar question is how have the Davids achieved this not-to-be-ignored success rate? Lets return to history to seek answers to our questions and to understand their game plans. The mighty Trojans were defeated when a handful of Greek soldiers infiltrated their walls by hiding inside a wooden horse. The Greeks played on the Trojans’ gullibility and went on to win a war that had spanned ten years and had become a symbol of their failure.
The underdog success rates have been evocatively depicted in numerous Hollywood movies over the years. Whether it is the fight of a small city football team against the all time champions as in “Escape to Victory”, or an individual’s triumph against a system as we saw in “Gattaca” - we have seen them all.
So what else is common between all these historical events? Or even the movies based on the David and Goliath themes?
The Davids in all and any asymmetrical conflicts have been able to understand their enemy’s weaknesses better than the enemy himself. They have been able find their Achilles’ heel and use it to conquer the seemingly unconquerable. At the same they recognized their own strengths and successfully built upon them to attain success. They use their cunning, ingenuity, and out of the box thinking to decimate the gargantuan opponent.
Phoenix like they have risen again and again from the ashes of their previous defeats, each resurrection strengthening them infinitely and leading them on to their success.