To Win Without Fighting: Difference between revisions

** The Siege of Fort William Henry was a textbook example of 18th century siege warfare. If the attackers could get close enough to destroy the fort's walls, and if the defenders were unable to call for reinforcements in time, then the attackers would almost certainly win. Traditionally, once the attackers had successfully battered down the wall, they offered the defenders the chance to honorably surrender. Otherwise they would storm the breach and kill everybody inside.

* In ''[[Star Wars]]'' the idea with the Death Star, a giant battle station able to blow off entire planets, is not so much to use it, but to use the fear of what it could do to hold rebellious systems in line. In the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] the Tarkin Doctrine is fully explained, referencing experiences with the Star Destroyers. While much smaller than the Death Star, they were still much bigger than any other warship before them, a fact which would by itself often keep people from fighting. Which, in Tarkin's words made it possible to ''"Rule through the fear of force rather than through force itself"''. In the end, the doctrine backfired when people, instead of becoming fearful, got angry over what the Death Star could do—and did. Textbook misreading of ''[[The Prince]]''.

 

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