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Britain, however, was insulated from French military power; only an indirect strategy of economic warfare remained possible.
When forced to fight, the indirect strategy involves using surprise, intelligence, logic, and human nature to exploit the enemy's weaknesses.
The indirect strategy is based upon creating turning points which cause enemies to lose momentum they can never regain.
The first and foremost principle is that the indirect strategy is a psychological operation ("psy-op" in military jargon) based upon understanding, predicting, and influencing human nature.
In painstaking detail he described the superiority of the indirect strategy over the direct strategy, using examples throughout the history of warfare.
For example, at the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC, the smaller Carthaginian army under the command of Hannibal defeated a numerically superior Roman army using the indirect strategy.
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Defeat can be accomplished only by indirect strategies, such as waiting for an accidental hardware failure or searching for an error in implementation.
Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand are good examples of countries that have alleviated poverty through indirect strategies.
Fig. 1 Environmental NGOs' direct and indirect strategies Fig. 2 Framework for NGOs to influence corporate environmental responsibility practice in Ethiopia.
The broken line indicates the indirect strategies which show NGOs use of different entities such as media, government and primary stakeholders to influence the environmental performance of companies.
This may be accomplished using either direct or indirect strategies depending on the plasticity of the IAP, economic and social constraints and the phenology of the IAP in comparison to the natives.
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