21. The gold cicada molts it's shell
This means leaving behind false appearances created for strategic purposes. Like the cicada shell, the facade remains intact, but the real action is now elsewhere.
A famous example of this strategy comes from the D-Day operation during WWII. The Germans were convinved that the US General Patton would be the leader of the invasion forces.
The allies set up a fake army, to be led by Patton. False communications were on the radio waves. German spys took pictures of fake tanks. A whole army was fabricated.
The D-Day invasion succeeded, in part, because the German Army thought the invasion was feint, with the real invasion, to be led by Patton, would take place elsewhere.
Patton the movie was just on recently. Quite a performance by George C. Scott (remember his monologue?). I believe he won the oscar for that one.
ReplyDeleteThat monologue was probably one of the top 100 scenes in movie history.
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