A favorite way of strategizing is the use of the 36 Strategems. Most strategic thinkers indirectly use some parts of it in their own world of madness.
Below is an article on how to disrupt the opposition from their game by indirectly using a 36 Strategems approach:
Don't call out Manning and give Pats' Brady a pass
Posted: Tuesday January 17, 2006 5:02PM; Updated: Wednesday January 18, 2006 1:42AM
Tom Brady
There's no getting around it: Tom Brady played poorly in Saturday's loss to Denver.
John Biever/SI
Why is Peyton Manning getting so much heat now while Tom Brady gets none? They're both terrific quarterbacks and very fine people. Each one will have my vote for the Hall of Fame when his name comes up (if I'm still around by then). And each had a bad postseason. But Manning is getting ripped and Brady has received no criticism whatsoever. Why?
There's just something about Peyton's personality, I guess. Or maybe it's the idea that since Brady has been such a proven winner, an occasional slip-up can be excused. Or maybe it's that his team struggled all season while the Colts didn't.
Both clubs suffered the same postseason malady. It's called out of sync. Blitzes were their undoing. Maybe that will be the new defensive textbook for playoff football. When you're playing a team that clinched early and rested people, blitz the hell out of them because they'll be rusty in their adjustments.
With Brady, his early problems were kind of brushed aside in the Jacksonville game because it became a runaway in the second half. But the Patriots had gone through a miserable first half. Brady was 7-for-17 for minimal yardage. He'd been sacked four times. His passes were sailing and nosing, receivers were running the wrong pattern or dropping the ball. But how could you dwell on stuff like that after a 28-3 victory?
The Broncos game started the same way: 7-for-15 for three first half points. But the errors were coming on blitz adjustment. The Broncos rushed as many as eight people on occasion. They attacked the Patriots' tackles, which seemed like the most logical thing to do, since they were the weak points of the offensive line. Denver was effective placing smaller players, such as safety JohnLynch, in a wide rush position and having them come full bore. The weakness is that it takes longer to get to the passer that way, and Brady is usually so quick on his hot reads or sight adjustments that he'd kill it quickly.
But not on Saturday night. The whole New England operation was skewed. Things weren't crisp. Brady was off, even on some of his little checkdowns. One play was embarrassing: a smoke, or shoot route, in which Brady whips the ball quickly to a receiver out wide and if he can beat his man with one fake, he's off and running, only this time David Givens was downfield while Brady was throwing out wide -- to no one.
In the second half, the Patriots' offense started working, and the Broncos were doing zip, and it seemed as if New England would pull it out. Then came the forced pass that fell into ChampBailey's hands, then the fumbled punt, and the Pats were sunk. Brady was criticized for one play, the forced pick by Bailey. But his whole first half was shaky, just as it was against Jacksonville, as was the rest of the offense.
Manning got heat for his failure to control the Steelers' blitz, and his remark that the team had "problems with the protection." Gosh, he criticized his teammates, or the coaching, or something. How awful. Better make that, how honest.
I think that game will cause people to rethink their postseason preparation, if they clinch early, because having the regulars take a seat for two or three weeks seemed to create more problems than it solved.
I like to watch the Steelers, just as I used to enjoy watching the old Floyd Peters-coached Gold Rush teams on the 49ers, because their blitz scheme was constantly changing, constantly evolving. Peters told me that he used to stay up nights thinking of only one thing, how to apply pressure in ways he hadn't shown before. Well, Pittsburgh's defensive coordinator, Dick LeBeau, father of the zone blitz, seems to be the same type of coach. He unwrapped a new package for the Colts Sunday.
He packed his defensive front with smaller people, linebackers, plus strong safety Troy Polamalu. He had guys coming from weird angles, and used some zone blitz principles by dropping linemen into the short zones. He made a pass rusher out of his best cover linebacker, James Farrior, and had him swooping in on Manning from everywhere, inside and out.
Who ever knew that Farrior could blitz? The Steeler rush always came from the outside backers. Farrior had been the mop-up man in the middle. In eight years, going into this season, he had put up only eight and a half sacks. This year he had two during the regular season and against the Colts he had two and a half, plus a few more forces.
Manning and the protection scheme couldn't handle this orgy of strategy in the first half. By the fourth quarter, though, things had righted themselves and they were moving smartly. Then all the crazy stuff, which has been well documented, happened.
Yeah, Manning was off, and the protection took a while to catch up with the rush, and all that, but where I assign the major blame is with the Colts' thinking at the end of the game. They started on their own 42, down by three points, with 1:09 showing. They had all three time outs.
First pass was a 22-yard completion to Reggie Wayne on a crossing pattern against a defense that was no longer applying pressure. On the next play Manning completed an eight-yarder to Marvin Harrison, again on a cross. Time out on the Steelers 28 with 0:31 left.
Two more completions and they'd have been lining up for a short field goal. If the game goes into OT, I've got to like the Colts' chances. They had moved the ball for two long TD drives in the fourth quarter. The Steelers, with all the publicity their running game received, had scored only once out of five second-half possessions. Instead, Manning, or maybe it was offensive coordinator Tom Moore, although I've got to believe it was Manning himself (Moore, an old timer, never would be so bold) threw two deep balls to Wayne in the left corner, neither of which had a chance, thereby setting up a 46-yard field goal.
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/// From this Cardinal's pov, there's nothing like running an ["incremental momentum"] driven "counter attacking" defense that intimidates the opposing field general from start to finish. ///
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The following example is my way of using a 36 Strategems approach in terms of setting up the opposition "tactically and implementing the "36" in terms of steps.
Grand Goal: Running an aggressive "Counter-Offensive" approach.
Strategic Essentials
Priority:
[S#19: "Take away the fire from under the cauldron" (eliminate their power src.). ]
[S#30: Host & Guest Reversed .]
[S#4: Wait at ease for fatigued enemy. ]
Approach:
[S#9: Conceal a dagger in a smile];
[S#35: Interlocking stratagems] (Use a combo of diff. tactics to wear down the opposition); and
[S#8: Advance to Chencang by a hidden path]
Circumstance:
If the team's in discord [S#20: Sow discord in the enemy's camp],
implement
[S# 9: Watch the fire burning across the river].
Exception:
If the offense scores on us, start with [S#36: Retreat is the best option] to regain our composture then implement the approach of [S#35: the Interlocking stratagems) to re-start our offensive momentum.
Tactical Approach
Implement [S#21 "The Cicada shed its skin" (formulating a deceptive formation)]
to create a [S#26 "Point at the mulberry only to curse the locust" (Misdirectional attack)]
that focuses on the QB [S #18 To catch rebels, nab the leader first ]
that creates this effect of [S#20 Sow discord in the enemy's camp (Discord Your Enemy To Undermine their Ability)]
If the effect is successful, it causes the following outcome [S# 19: "Take away the fire from under the cauldron" (eliminate their power src.)].
Success creates the following: [S#24 "Borrow a route to conquer Guo" (Success creates trust within the defensive team that increases the defensive play caller's sphere of influence) ].
Once the defense dominates the offense, This event "S#30 Host & Guest Reversed" occurs. As the defense becomes the Host, it controls the momentum of the game (as in time, space, structure, mobility and force) and the opposing Offense becomes the Guest (the controlee)!
Learned this approach from studying "how Mao's field generals used various Go concepts to formulate their tactics in combatting the "Nationalist army". Another good book on the ["36"] is Ma Xiaochun's Thirty-six Stratagems Applied to Go that's published by Yutopian
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My pov is: most amateur strategic thinkers aren't into reading Sunzi or JTG principles, mainly [36 Strategems]. They claim to, but do not do it.
What are the Positives and Negatives about Implementing the 36 Strategems?
36 Strategems is about getting the job done through deceptive means. It's a tool that treats your troops as Nameless, Faceless Objects (NFO). Great f/ thinkers who believe "the end justify the means".
Because if people did read and understand the essence behind Sunzi AoW and/or JTG Six Secret Strategic Teachings (aka Six Strategies), they would emphasizes on "proper strategic leadership and the importance of taking care of the ppl below. Most so-called leaders w/ so-called importance don't care f/ the masses until it's necessary.
The secret to mastering the 36 Strategems is to understand the six macro situations.
When one's able to read and recognize the six macro situations within his own settings, he's ahead of the curve.
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