They know the enemy has options, and they want to deny the enemy those options as much as possible.
Our armed forces - like their counterparts in the intelligence community, Department of Homeland Security and law enforcement - have a professional duty to know the enemy and develop appropriate responses to the threat doctrine.
This was the essential difficulty of the task at hand: The higher-ups in the U.S. Army needed to know about the enemy in this unexplored province, so in order to learn as much as they could, they were going to stick a small group of troops in its midst.
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If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
"No, since I'm in an area where I don't know where the enemy could be, from when I get on the airplane 'til I get off the airplane, I'm thinking the same way, " Maj.
Not surprisingly, those who have, in Mr. Coughlin's words, "a professional duty to know" the nature of the enemy and its threat doctrine have generally been unwilling to jeopardize their careers and reputations by accurately understanding and depicting such things.
Theoretically, if the enemy does not know that his electronic messages are intercepted, we could read them.
Because our inability to understand the enemy stems from a decision not to know him, this thesis recommends the return to a threat analysis process as the methodology to analyze the enemy's stated doctrine.
While opening up two-way control and surrendering the UI to its perceived over-the-top video-providing enemy could change pay-TV as we know it, the trade-off is Google TV compatibility could give 'em the competitive edge they need.
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For example, in the Battle of Midway, both sides knew the enemy fleet existed, but they did not know where.
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"Singapore is sometimes its own worst enemy, like, the only thing people know about the city is the chewing-gum ban, " the director says.
Intelligence services both in Britain and abroad are loth to give the enemy a clear indication of how much they know, and, especially, of how they know it.
However, unlike Mr Giuliani, who had years in government service getting to know his enemy, Mr Bloomberg's career has been wholly in the private sector.
You know, we have to be right a hundred percent of the time, and the enemy only has to be right once to hurt us.
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