“Even if you have the technology, fight the peasant's war.”

The 33 Strategies of War, Strategy 8, The Perfect-Economy Strategy

Armies that have the edge in money, resources, and firepower, whilst they inevitably hold the potential to exert more brute force, they also tend to be incredibly predictable.

Relying on their equipment and ability to push people around rather than on knowledge and strategy, they grow mentally lazy.

When problems arise, their solution is not to creatively invent their way out of the boxes they have found themselves in—using the resources already at their disposal to do so—but instead to simply amass more of what they already have.

They acquire more weapons, infantry, capital, and technology, assuming more “things” will result in victory.

The truth, however, is that victory does not come from what we have, but from how we use it.