Law 9: Counterattack Strategy

Question 1

What is the core tenet of the counterattack strategy?

Answer 1

Turn the enemy’s strength into their weakness

Question 2

Explain the paradox of the counterattack strategy - turn the enemy’s strength into their weakness? What?

Answer 2

The enemy relies on their strength. If you can Neutralise their strength, they become vulnerable.

Question 3

What is the only kind of enemy strength you can’t neutralise?

Answer 3

A superior style of fighting.

Question 4

What can you do to neutralise an enemy’s superior style of fighting?

Answer 4

Learn it.

Question 4

If you can’t work on neutralising an enemy’s strengths, what other way can you employ the counterattack strategy?

Answer 4

You reverse your own weaknesses

Question 5

Mentally, how does the counterattack strategy work?

Answer 5

If you neutralise the enemy’s biggest strength, the enemy becomes increasingly frustrated and drained. Eventually, it becomes easy for you to attack the enemy once they’ve lost their energy and morale.

Question 6

What are some ways in which you can neutralise your enemy’s strengths?

Answer 6

• Give off a weak and vulnerable appearance
• Lure them into leaving their position of strength
• Entice them with something they deeply desire
• Carousel of slowness
• Bait their least controllable emotion
• Put them in a position where they can’t use their obvious source of strength

Question 7

How does giving off a weak appearance help you win?

Answer 7

When the enemy sees you as weak and vulnerable, they give up their prudence. They attack recklessly and with abandon, and can leave themselves open to swift counterattacks.

Question 8

How does luring the enemy work?

Answer 8

If you understand what gives the enemy maximum strength and can lure them into leaving this position, suddenly you’re fighting on level ground.

Question 9

What happens when you entice the enemy with something they desperately desire?

Answer 9

They become impatient. This leads to thoughtless commitment to decisions. This ends up with them limiting their own options.

Question 10

What is the carousel method?

Answer 10

You slow the proceedings down to a crawl. You show no interest in fighting. The enemy catches the slowness. Once the enemy catches the slowness you can go on a quick, incisive attack.

Question 11

How can your enemy’s emotions help you neutralise their strengths?

Answer 11

If you can find the emotion that your enemy is least able to manage, you can then bait them into losing control by bringing that emotion to the surface. They end up willingly walking into your trap.

Test -> Bait -> Welcome to the trap

Question 12

What is the wrong thing to do if the enemy’s strategy of gaining control is to act out by being impossible/neurotic?

Answer 12

1. Getting angry
2. Trying to make them stop
3. Letting them do what they want

Question 13

What is the right thing to do if the enemy tries to gain control by acting out (being impossible/neurotic)?

Answer 13

Agree & Amplify

• Encourage their behaviour
• Agree with their paranoid ideas
• Push them to go further

Question 14

What happens when you A&A an enemy who’s trying to be impossible to gain control?

Answer 14

They get themselves into trouble, or get hopelessly confused

Question 15

What should you keep doing whether in peace time or war time?

Answer 15

Find and eliminate your own obvious weaknesses.