ABSTRACT
The principles of political struggle are identical with those of military struggle. Success in both political knowledge and political practice depends finally, as in military affairs, upon the grasp of the key to the situation. The great political leader— Pericles or the elder Cato or Mohammed or Caesar or Henry of Navarre or Bismarck or Hamilton or Lenin or Innocent III or the younger Pitt—focuses on the key. A long-term global psycho-political campaign that deceived Western opinion and diverted the Western nations from deterrent intervention was an indispensable element in the communist conquest of China. Castro's conquest of Cuba was accomplished through an integral blend of psycho-political and paramilitary measures. Political disorders, resulting from many sorts of internal instability and rivalry, and spurred, often, by both the advanced powers and the United Nations, are increasing rather than quieting down.
