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A Chinese military strategy used as an analogy for forcing unity by removing the possibility of retreat.
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River behind your back
A Chinese military strategy used as an analogy for forcing unity by removing the possibility of retreat.
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"...most popular military strategy M is to fight with a river behind your back you guys have heard of this strategy right where okay..."
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"or you can fight to the death and most soldiers will choose to fight to the death and so at this point the soldiers..."
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The lecture asks how evil triumphs and answers with a disturbing mechanism: break the taboo publicly, remove retreat, and the group becomes one body.
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