Jan 25, 2020, 9:07 AM
I studied history, military history, military technology, technological history, political history, engineering, drafting, and art history. I built businesses in art supplies, business supplies, legal research, and technology consulting, marketing consulting, strategy consulting, greenhouse gas measurement, product development, and I touched private and public organizations almost every sector of the state and economy – and built most of those businesses through about half acquisition and half organic growth. I ran those organizations as intelligence agencies. And I did that while being on the short side, being on the aspie spectrum, and battling cancer and its effects for most of my adult life. But lets be clear: I think in military (maneuver, logistics), and economic (incentive) terms, and like Napoleon who should be studied for his methods if not his character or ambitions – in intelligence terms. Sun Tzu and Machiavelli are not teaching you strategy or tactics. They’re giving you a warning that morality is the result of the domestication of warfare into productive ends – but that war outside of those ends is not moral whatsoever, and you must not become “submissive” to morality because the majority merely habituate rather than comprehend when moral internal and amoral external means of decision making apply.