What if ... "China Attacks Taiwan!".(military strategy forecasting)

From: Parameters | Date: September 22, 2001| Author: RUSSELL, RICHARD L. | Copyright information

"The Lacedaemonians gave sentence that the peace was broken and that war was to be made, not so much for the words of the confederates as for fear the Athenian greatness should still increase. For they saw that a great part of Greece was fallen already into their hands."

Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War

"Attack when they are unprepared, make your move when they do not expect it."

"So a military force is established by deception, mobilized by gain...

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