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- We're in an OE we created and don't control.
- Cyber is the new Urban and the adversary is the insurgent.
- The adversary looks like the populace, sounds like them, lives in their midst, and hides his activities among the normal and legitimate activities of the populace.
- Regular tactics don't work against irregular adversaries.
- Know your doctrine, study the adversary's.
- If someone punches you in the face, you're in a fight.
- If you stand still you will continue getting punched in the face.
- Espionage is a peacetime effort to us. To them, it's used as an opening salvo to position the pieces to control the center.
- There is a lot of room for deception in the modern computing environment.
- A mix of unorthodox and orthodox strategies is the only way to succeed.
- Know and understand the needs, capabilities, tactics, tools and methodologies of the adversary. This is asymmetry.
- Predictive capability can only come from studying history, yours and theirs.
- The use of malware, viruses, worms and other destructive software is encouraged, and condoned. This is killing with a borrowed knife.
- If I was in a different country, I would be expected to use my computer as a weapon.
- The siegfried line was overrun through cunning and persistence.
- The maginot line was flanked.
- A hardened structure can only protect you from that which it is hardened against.
- Siege warfare mentality no longer applies, yet it is practiced.
- A stationary target will always succumb to cunning and persistence, if it remains stationary.
- Counter offensives launched from stationary positions will hardly be effective.
- You must move as quickly as the adversary.
- Your culture has shaped your entire life. Study a different culture and adapt.
- When a country only wants to buy two of your products, it's so they can reverse engineer and copy them. Russia learned this the hard way.
- The farewell dossier event occured nearly 30 years ago.
- Master your own perception before manipulating the adversary's.
- If the adversary is hungry. He can be easily manipulated.
- Learn to build snowmobiles.
- The world is non-linear. Think in conceptual spirals.
- True intelligence is the result of synthesis.
- Once a target, always a target. Once a target, always a victim. Once a victim, always a victim.