Part. I. Self-directed warfare. 1. Declare war on your enemies: The polarity strategy
- 2. Do not fight the last war: The guerrilla-war-of-the-mind strategy
- 3. Amidst the turmoil of events, do not lose your presence of mind: The counterbalance strategy
- 4. Create a sense of urgency and desperation: The death-ground strategy
Part. II. Organizational (team) warfare. 5. Avoid the snares of groupthink: The command-and-control strategy
- 6. Segment your forces: The controlled-chaos strategy
- 7. Transform your war into a crusade: Morale strategies.
Part. III. Defensive warfare. 8. Pick your battle carefully: The perfect-economy strategy
- 9. Turn the tables: The counterattack strategy
- 10. Create a threatening presence: Deterrence strategies
- 11. Trade space for time: The nonengagement strategy
Part. IV. Offensive warfare. 12. Lose battles but win the war: Grand strategy
- 13. Know your enemy: The intelligence strategy
- 14. Overwhelm resistance with speed and suddenness: The blitzkrieg strategy
- 15. Control the dynamic: Forcing strategies
- 16. Hit them where it hurts: The center-of-gravity strategy
- 17. Defeat them in detail: The divide-and-conquer strategy
- 18. Expose and attack your opponent's soft flank: The turning strategy
- 19. Envelop the enemy: The annihilation strategy
- 20. Maneuver them into weakness: The ripening-for-the sickle strategy
- 21. Negotiate while advancing: The diplomatic-war strategy
- 22. Know how to end things: The exit strategy
- pt. V. Unconventional (dirty) warfare. 23. Weave a seamless blend of fact and fiction: Misperception strategies
- 24. Take the line of least expectation: The ordinary-extraordinary strategy
- 25. Occupy the moral high ground: The righteous strategy
- 26. Deny them targets: The strategy of the void
- 27. Seem to work for the interests of others while furthering your own: The alliance strategy
- 28. Give your rivals enough rope to hang themselves: The one-upmanship strategy
- 29. Take small bites: The fait accompli strategy
- 30. Penetrate their minds: Communication strategies
- 31. Destroy from within: The inner-front strategy
- 32. Dominate while seeming to submit: The passive-aggression strategy
- 33. Sow uncertainty and panic through acts of terror: The chain-reaction strategy.
