Chapter Two – Attackers and Attack Rituals: Lessons Learned —
The Definitive Self-Protection Handbook  Dead or Alive by Geoff
Thompson  Copyright © Geoff Thompson 2004  'Know the other and
know yourself; One hundred challenges without danger; Know the
other and know not yourself; One triumph for one defeat; Know
not the other and know not yourself ' Every challenge is certain
peril.'  Sun Tzu  If you know why, where and how an attack is
likely to happen it stands to reason that this knowledge will
help you to avoid such situations, or prepare for them.  In
bygone days, nearly all attacks on people were relegated to the
hours of darkness and the deepest crevices of seclusion, i.e.
down a dark alley at night. So, hypothetically, if you avoided
dark secluded places you were pretty damned safe. Not so in
today's liberated society where the antagonists have crawled out
of the crevices, come off the night shift, and anybody, any
time, any place is fair game. Why? There could be a myriad
reasons, but these are not r