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Disciplines > Warfare > Principles > Intelligence Principle | Effect | Usage | Example | Analogy | See also
PrincipleThe side that knows most wins. EffectIntelligence about your opponents strategy, plans, weaponry, positions, troop movements and so on lets you make effective tactical and strategic decisions and avoid fatal decisions. Managing intelligence includes the supply of disinformation to the other side in order to trick them into making the wrong decisions. UsageMilitary Intelligence (despite sometimes being parodied as an oxymoron) is a critical principle. Wartime decisions play with the lives of thousands of soldiers and eventually millions of citizens and the fate of nations. The truth of the facts and observations on which decisions are identified and made thus has a highly significant effect. ExampleIn the second world war enormous efforts went into gathering information through spies across Europe, local resistance movements, intercepted messages, aerial photography and so on. This activity, coupled with clever disinformation tactics and massive public encouragement to protect information ('Walls have ears!'), probably led directly to the final outcome. AnalogyBefore negotiations and arguments begin, do your homework about the other
person, what motivates them, what they might want and how they might react to
your arguments. See also
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