1. Victory is the principal goal of a
society and the first responsibility of
the state, because only in victory is
the survival possible of a people, its
civilization and values, its language
and freedoms.
2. Victory begins with a single act, and
may begin to be unraveled by a single
event, but it is only built and defended
through generations of separate, patient
and conscious actions.
3. Victory can only be sustained and
built by the conscious articulation of
grand strategy objectives which must
accord with, and become part of, the
society’s psyche.
The development of an
operating grand strategy and the
conscious re-articulation and evolution
of the grand strategy objectives
substantially increases the likelihood
of victory.
4. War is the most common and successful
catalyst through which victory is
commenced, but once victory is secured,
warfare should be the preferred option
only when considered against lesser
forces.
When warfare must be fought
against equal or greater powers, then
victory is jeopardized. What must be
weighed is whether victory is more
greatly jeopardized by war, or by the
avoidance of war.
5. Victory gives its holders the power
to define and prevail in terms of
language, belief structures, and
lifestyle, but all these become
jeopardized the moment arrogance allows
the Victorious people to take these
benefits for granted. Arrogance opens
the path to defeat and to another’s
victory. Constant challenge and
redefinition from within and without is
the lifeblood of Victory’s sustenance.
6. No victory was ever begun, or
sustained, without a belief system which
was greater than the individual. The
more divine and unassailable the
inspiration — however its divinity is
defined — the more potent its force.
However, reliance on belief alone,
without the balance of other strengths,
is the path to defeat.
7. Belief in a greater power than one’s
self is essential to victory, but
self-belief is of equal importance in
obtaining and sustaining victory.
8. Organically evolved complexity
defines and sustains victory.
Victory is conceived in the absolute
simplicity of its immediate objectives
and driven by the simple necessity of a
society to achieve dominion over its own
destiny. But victory is sustained and
defended against collapse by the
construction of increasingly complex and
interlocking modalities which buffer a
society against weaknesses in any
individual areas. Watersheds create or
destroy victory; organically-evolved
complexity defines and sustains victory.
9. Only the mind can conceive victory,
comprehend threats and possibilities,
and accept defeat. All victory is more
easily achieved and maintained by
placing twice the emphasis on
psychological strategy as on physical
force.
Victory
must therefore first be achieved in
and by the mind before it can be
achieved physically. Defeat,
equally, is engendered principally
in the mind. It therefore follows
that psychological strategies are
the masters of physical strategies
and are their superiors. It also
follows that victory can be achieved
or defeated through psychological
measures. The acme of victory is its
achievement and sustenance solely
without physical war. Next is the
achievement of victory through
disruption of an enemy’s plans,
which means disruption of his
collective mind, will, image, and
ability to influence and
communicate. Third is the
achievement of victory by the
efficient use of force under the
guidance of a comprehensive
psychological strategy.
10. Victory is achieved and sustained in
direct proportion to the level of
“identity security” — historical
self-knowledge, self-perception and
inherent pride — of a society and its
leaders, demanding an appreciation of
history, the evolution and importance of
tradition, and identification with
societal icons.
11. Terrorism is a tool for an imperiled
society to use in order to avoid
vanquishment and disintegration. It is
not a war-winning weapon, nor is it a
tool to gain or sustain victory.
In the
fight for victory, terrorism can only be
a weapon to stave off defeat, unless its
target voluntarily surrenders.
12. Victory can never be given, it can
only be achieved, and peace is secure
only in victory. While victory can be
shared, appeasement is the commencement
of the erosion of victory. Indeed,
enemies are vital to victory as the
stimulus for its defense. Therefore
embrace, nurture, understand, and
respect enemies.
13. Destruction can never be the quest
of victory. Destruction may merely be a
step in the path to construction, for
construction is the hallmark of victory.
14. Victory must be recognized by the
victorious as well as by the outside
world if it is to be truly durable. It
must be acknowledged, accepted and
venerated, and this process of
legitimization must be consciously and
assiduously attended. No neglect in this
process can be tolerated; nor can
challenges to legitimacy be allowed to
go unmet. Victory is as it is perceived
and honored to be.
15. The true leader is as one with his
or her epoch and comprehends the place
and rôle of past leaders while building
a foundation for future leaders. Only
through leadership can a society be
greater than the sum of its parts.
16. Collective leadership does not
exist. Collective responsibility is the
abdication of responsibility. Leadership
and responsibility must be conducted in
isolation; the greater the level of
leadership and responsibility, the
greater the isolation from human
interaction which must be accepted. This
is because leadership is as iconic as it
is physical.
17. Leadership, like victory itself, is
as it is perceived and revered to be.
18. All victory is the responsibility of
the leader, and the leader is the fruit
of the society. Each makes the other,
but the leader ultimately must transcend
collectivity, which is defined by its
median, its mediocrity. But if
successive leaders fail to raise the
median of the society, then the society
may ultimately reject even the best
leader. Therefore, even a single poor
leader damages victory, just as a single
great leader may advance its cause.
19. Mutual loyalty exists only between
equals. In all other instances, loyalty
flows only in any durable form from the
weaker to the more powerful. There is
ultimately no loyalty from the strong to
the weak, and nor will the loyalty of
the weak to the strong long survive the
collapse of the stronger party.
20. Victory can never be total, and this
is its beauty. Victory is always
relative and will ultimately fail if it
attempts to be absolute.
21. The enemy of “identity” is “mass”:
greater mass obliterates the identity
and purpose of victory, which is the
perpetuation and security of individual
bloodlines, and the survival of the clan
within a society of clans, each of which
contributes the strength of its identity
to society. Where identity is sacrificed
to mass, victory suffers.
22. Victory is an art beyond science,
but embracing science, and each society
must pursue victory in accord with its
needs and character. As all victory is
the need and possession of the society
which pursues it, so it must reflect
that society and cannot be wholly copied
from another, although the principles
remain the same for all.
23. Victory can never be sustained by
attempting to give a separate victory to
another. Victory cannot be bought or
sold; it can only be won. Victory given
as a gift is always perceived as the
weakness of the giver, who in granting
it becomes the object of contempt or
nurtured resentment.
24. The gift of victory is something
which can only be given by a society to
itself.
25. No victory was ever created or
sustained by weakness, physical or
intellectual.
26. An enemy can on no account be
ignored, and while an enemy’s motive
must be understood, it can never be
given greater right than the defense of
one’s own victory.
27. Victory which depends solely on a
single element — whether strength of
force, religion or belief, wealth,
culture, or intellect — will fail.
28. Victory is beyond the power of any
individual, and yet is absolutely
dependent on the strength of the
individual leader.
