SLOW SLOW QUICK QUICK
Chinese strategy of slow-slow-quick-quick:
The first step, a "slow," was to meticulously prepare before any campaign, which the Mongols always did to the highest degree.
The second "slow" was a setup which involved getting the enemy to lower its guard, lulling it into complacency.
Then came the first "quick" fixing the enemy's attention forward with a swift frontal attack.
The final "quick" was a doubly swift blow from an unexpected direction. A master of psychological warfare, Genghis Khan understood that men are most terrified by the unknown and unpredictable.
The suddenness of his attacks made the speed of them doubly effective, leading to confusion and panic.
*First, you prepare yourself before any action, scanning your enemy for weaknesses. Then you find a way to get your enemy to underestimate you, to lower their guard. When you strike unexpectedly, they will freeze up. When you hit again, it is from the side and out of nowhere. It is the unanticipated blow that makes the biggest impact.
While those around you remain defensive and immobile, you surprise them with sudden and decisive action, forcing them to act before they are ready. They will most likely become emotional and react imprudently. You have breached their defenses, and if you have breached their defenses, and if you keep up the pressure and hit them again with something unexpected, you will send them into a kind of downward psychological spiral - pushing them into mistakes which further deepens their confusion, and so the cycle goes on.
The first step, a "slow," was to meticulously prepare before any campaign, which the Mongols always did to the highest degree.
The second "slow" was a setup which involved getting the enemy to lower its guard, lulling it into complacency.
Then came the first "quick" fixing the enemy's attention forward with a swift frontal attack.
The final "quick" was a doubly swift blow from an unexpected direction. A master of psychological warfare, Genghis Khan understood that men are most terrified by the unknown and unpredictable.
The suddenness of his attacks made the speed of them doubly effective, leading to confusion and panic.
*First, you prepare yourself before any action, scanning your enemy for weaknesses. Then you find a way to get your enemy to underestimate you, to lower their guard. When you strike unexpectedly, they will freeze up. When you hit again, it is from the side and out of nowhere. It is the unanticipated blow that makes the biggest impact.
While those around you remain defensive and immobile, you surprise them with sudden and decisive action, forcing them to act before they are ready. They will most likely become emotional and react imprudently. You have breached their defenses, and if you have breached their defenses, and if you keep up the pressure and hit them again with something unexpected, you will send them into a kind of downward psychological spiral - pushing them into mistakes which further deepens their confusion, and so the cycle goes on.
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