Warfare - Plus ca change.

By Dint:

Persuasion for the cause
War as a Big Game. Condition the Children. Or is it Necessary?.  Personality types, hard-wiring, conditioning, how much is necessary to counter the pathological haters, and how much can be diminished as to conflict, by training.



War Promotion.  Fraud and Deception

Resistance
Czech paratroopers, other resistance, WWII Prague   Assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich.
First French Resistor

Hussars, Winged Cavalry, old Poland, other Eastern Europe  A/k/a Husaria, Husarz.  The frames on the shoulders and backs were lined with feathers that made a hmmmmwhrrr sound as they rode. The sound preceded the sight.

Castles: Warfare Learning Tool. Strategy and Murder Holes  Any castle will do. Defense and offense. Try Blarney. Liddell Hart's WWI work (uses of indirection; upset the enemy's equilibrium); Bunratty's little staircases in reverse.

Otkell, Son of Skarf, Icelandic Saga.  From Burnt Njall's Saga, events 900 AD in Nordic-Viking Iceland, written perhaps 1100 AD.  A man whose greed was simply circumvented by the group's inspired leader, a tactic of indirection leading to a better result than confrontation