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Warfare and the art of adaptation

Posted: Friday, February 22, 2013 - By Jack O’Brien
SOMEONE SAID: You can’t win a war if you can’t even identify the enemy, and you can’t protect yourself against someone who has little to live for and much to die for. So what’s the answer?

Adaptation is a critically important part of our mental equipment. Time changes all things, and we must go with the flow or retire from the game. It shows up in a small way when you reach for your umbrella before going out in the rain, but maybe to best effect in wartime when one side launches an astonishing new weapon and the other promptly dreams up a counter-measure and launches its own dream weapon.

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