26470 - Military proportions
N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athena Kehagias
We often assume that peace is the norm, and that war is an exception.
Of course during the history of Humanity we see that exactly the opposite is applicable.
Quite simply, even this analogy is dangerous as we will see furtheron.
If the war resembles the flood, and peace its absence, then we are at the initial normal context.
In this model we can observe that the statistics of appearance is not sufficient to characterize the entire action field.
Because even though flooding it’s rarer, the consequences of its impact are so significant that the entire battlefield changes as a result.
In actual fact, the appearance must be interpreted in the sense of peculiarity, and if mathematically it is able to be transformed into an abnormality or not.
In other words if it could pass from the local level onto the overall level.
The choice of the action field therefore, should occur through a combination with those two elements.
Yet another analogy has as a consequence the selection of the Meteora.
Because, even though the attacks were rare, the fact is that they were fatal, both height and difficulty became criteria, as the fact had a tail, and it constituted an anomaly in space-time.
In this sense, the life and death exercises are more valuable in regards to the war games, than those at which the examiners merely measure the overall performance.