ANALOGY FOR SHAPING THE BATTLESPACE
Consider that you intend to play a game of chess with another person and you intend to win. Then, in addition to being able to move the pieces, you can change the shape of the board itself before you even sit down to play. And perhaps the other person has never played a game of chess before, so you rewrite some of the rules of the game. Then you play a game.
That’s shaping the battlespace.
Matt:
October 19th, 2006 at 10:22 pm
Good discussion in these posts – very helpful for someone from outside the US. Thanks.
mark:
October 20th, 2006 at 2:22 am
You’re welcome, Matt. Thanks for stopping by !
RevG:
October 20th, 2006 at 3:53 am
Now consider that your opponent is actually many opponents using your apparent opponent as a proxy; who, while remaining invisible, imports rule sets from other games they know better than you and use the board in ways you never imagined. That’s a battle space shaped by 5GW.
mark:
October 20th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
Yes, that would be a potential trendline when the concept is distributed
Anonymous:
October 21st, 2006 at 12:15 am
or alternatively it’s the same good old game of chess and your are playing your spouse and she whoops your a$$ again.
Barnabus
purpleslog:
October 22nd, 2006 at 6:31 pm
To build on RevG, a 5GW, chess effectors could also infiltrate the schools and universities and game clubs to discourage good chess learning, or alternatively promote go, bridge or sheepshead instead of chess. When it comes time to play chess for real, nobody is any good, or they don’t want to play at all.