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HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 16 FEBURARY 1969
Cen O Con
Guardians Offices
PRO
Intelligence
ISSUE II-
Confidential
BATTLE TACTICS
(This
is a Defense Paper on material developed after 18 years of ceaseless attack by
a foreign enemy. Nothing in this paper advocates physical violence or invites
the physical destruction of persons.)
In
these days of "cold war" when actual warfare is impossible due to atomic
weapons, the warfare is waged in the press and public in the form of ideas.
If
you uniformly apply the tactics and strategy of battle to the rows we get into,
press or legal or public confrontation, you will win.
The
enemy uses "groups" and meetings of groups like one would use squads.
If
we and they are considered as two hostile and opposing nations at war, then a
huge array of tactics and strategy become visible.
One
parallels in the field of thought what is used and done in the field of
battle in other ages.
You
don't have to know too much about the tactics and strategy of warfare to apply
this but it helps.
The
end product of war, according to Klausewitz the authority on it, is (condensed)
"to bring about a more amenable frame of mind on the part of the enemy".
But
there are also wars of attrition. We are engaged in one where total destruction
of us has been the enemy's aim for, at this writing, 19 years. This is barbarian
warfare, thus the enemy must have had very positive fears and terrors about us.
Since he fought for total attrition. In this case it is not safe to hope for any
half way win. We must ourselves fight on a basis of total attrition of
the enemy. So never get reasonable about him. Just go all the way in and obliterate
him.
It
is bad warfare to fight battles on your own terrain, in your own subject
area. It is not good to fight in the territory of allies. Fight battles wherever
possible only on enemy terrain, in and about his subject and his people,
not ours. You can gauge your relative success by this. When all your battles are
fought on his terrain, you are winning.
A
good general expends the maximum of enemy troops and the minimum of his own. He
makes the war costly to the enemy, not to himself.
One cuts off enemy communications, funds, connections.
He deprives the enemy of political advantages, connections and power. He takes
over enemy territory. He raids and harrasses. All on a thought plane - press,
public opinion, governments, etc.
Seeing it as a battle one can apply battle tactics to thought actions.
Intelligence identifies targets and finds out enemy plans and purposes, enemy
connections, dispositions, etc. It is fatal to
attack a wrong enemy. But it is good tactics to make the enemy attack wrong targets
or persons himself.
Good
intelligence pin points who when where what.
2.
Good
PRO plans an action and operations fights the battle.
Legal is a slow if often final battle arena. It eventually comes down to legal
in the end. If intelligence and PRO have done well, then legal gets an easy win.
You
can win a battle even without legal and by PRO alone. You intend to win it without
legal wherever possible.
The prize is "public opinion" where
press is concerned. The only safe public opinion to head for is they love us and
are in a frenzy of hate against the enemy, this means standard wartime propaganda
is what one is doing, complete with atrocity, war crimes trials, the lot. Know
the mores of your public opinion, what they hate. That's the enemy. What they
love. That's you.
You preserve the image or increase it of your
own troops and degrade the image of the enemy to beast level.
Always be ready to parley but watch for tricks. Don't give the enemy breathing
space.
Capture and use his comm lines. A press magnate on your side is a big win.
You
have in one of these publicity wars all the factors of modern wars complete with
artillery, cavalry, infantry.
For
example at this writing, all fighting has been on our terrain, they knew our generals
we didn't know theirs, they had all the press, funds, government control. We are
reversing this. We are fighting now on their ground. But we have a long way to
go.
We
will make it all the way providing we look on this in terms of active battle and
not as a "if we are saintly good we will win". The people who win wars
have a saintly image but they win the war by clever and forceful use of the rules
of tactics, strategy and battle.
Wars
are composed of many battles.
Never treat a war like a skirmish. Treat all
skirmishes like wars.
The
cold war is a war. The West is losing it because it is fighting by other
rules than the rules of war. We mustn't lose it.
LRH:bw
Copyright (c) 1969
by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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