Guerilla tactics have been introduced to modern battle grounds by Asian forces. As popular Chess is in the western world Go is in Asia.
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The way to think is fundamentally different, but both are strategy games. Both games are the bases for also war fare strategic thinking. The Generals in charge trained their brain based on such games from early child hood on.
Chess is based on a rather small field with 64 squares, while Go puts its equal stones on the cross roads. Chess figures have defined names and attributes creating a hierarchy of importance in the game, while Go knows only your stones and the opponents stones.
Chess is a lot based on individual capabilities while Go relies on strategic placement of equal entities.
On might think that the objectives of both games are different, because in Chess the goal is put the King in Chess Mate while Go is based on conquering territory. Every Chess player should know that the key to get there is by controlling territory starting with the four squares in the center of the board.
There are entire schools of Chess theories out there, from a strong Pawn Wall controlled game towards Knights with Bishops intercepting to a Rook and Queen game including different times to go for the Chess Mate knowingly sacrificing other figures preparing the final strike to victory while in Go the victory is often seen only when counting points after the last stone was placed.
World War style strategists that base their thinking on the same theories as the Roman Legions straight to Napoleon all play and think Chess. These strategist will not hesitate to create plans leading entire Army's into death like Hitler the 6th Army in Stalingrad, like the Pentagon Big Red One into 80% loss in Vietnam, if it fits their overall plan to victory. No sacrifice to great only for the pawns, no mission to difficult only for the knights and bishops, because the victory will be achieved by Rooks and Queens.
Go is closer to dealing with humans.
Go tactics have been proven superior on battle grounds from the Varus Battle against the Romans to Vietnam War.
Even so the ancient people in the wood lands east of the Rhine and off the Roman Empire did not know Go they shared the same thinking fighting in hords of clans where every chieftain knew the mothers and sisters of the warrior, while a Centurion considered his job to torture even the King of Jews to death.
Go takes into account that humans are equal in importance for the person putting them onto the battle ground and that victory finally depends on the sum at the very end of the war.
Forces using guerrilla tactics proofed superior against strict hierarchical forces even so using light infantry weapons against highly armored modern high tech forces.
Hamas managed to blow up an Israeli Merkava tank using below military grade explosives by trapping the tank over a simple hole filled up with industrial standard explosives, they managed to keep the IDF off any attempt to get food soldiers into Gaza being able to take advantage of the tiny and narrow pathways and roads of the City and instead force them to use expensive precision rocket attacks fired from multi million dollar fighter aircrafts based on satellite gained intelligence information. 1 Dollar spent by Hamas is retaliated by a 100 possibly even a 1000 Dollars spent by the IDF.
Imagine what those 1001 Dollars could achieve spent on prosperity instead of killing each other.
The Vietkong used cheap Chinese AK-47 copies, hand grenades, light machine guns and hunter like sniper rifles to rip the largest western army apart spending $168 billion or $1 trillion in today's dollars achieving no more than separating the homeland and mass murdering drafted humans from less privileged neighbour hoods. The same amount put into prosperity of those neighborhoods would have ended structural racism by today.
Today there is another strategy on the rise.
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Today's threats are not huge armies clashing anymore like the Roman Legions threatened the people of Terra Incognita with slavery, like NATO and the Sowjets with two different economic systems creating an equal amount of actual slaves just within different groups of society and causing death and starvation all over the globe and the entire northern hemisphere with nuclear overkill, like the Nazis threatened the entire world with collapse and KZs.
Today it is organised highly profitable crime syndicates that right know proof by taking Afghanistan back within a Blitzkrieg like swipe and having put Mexico into Gangland that cannot be beaten anymore by large armies even so understanding guerrilla tactics and having adopted them for at least their special forces.
No regular army can win a war, if the citizens populating desks, pubs, sport bars and clubs back home are supporting the enemy by scoring every weekend over and over again the main source of income of the very enemy, if their own Secret Services are incapable of taking down the very monster they created during a cold war that was in grid lock by regular armies and fought by clandestine organizations.
Today's enemy is already living a Dysantrop society, it is an enemy junky producing, trafficking and selling and a domestic junky scoring a product that makes us less human, less empathic, less understanding but more numb. The product is narcotics and it creates cash and comes with guns.
