Hello everyone, welcome to another Narc Survival Live video. I want to know how to win any argument with a narcissist. And in this video, that is exactly what you are going to learn. You're going to learn how to win any argument with a narcissist. So sit down, relax and get ready for a very informative video. Just taking my jacket off as it is quite warm in here now. But yeah, you want to know how to win any argument with a narcissist. Because I know what it's like. There's always something for them to complain about. They're always arguing about something. And it's not that we don't want to listen or try to understand them. That is the thing we do try to understand them and listen to them. The best that we can. I mean so many times, how many times do you recall? Maybe at 11 o'clock at night, 2 o'clock in the morning. The first thing when you wake up, you're listening to these hour long monologues about nothing. It just doesn't go anywhere. It just circles round and around. You're listening, you're trying to understand. It's just this constant word salad that never goes anywhere. By the end of it, you just think, what is even the point? So it's not that we're not being empathic. We're not trying to listen to them or understand them. It has nothing to do with that at all. We are good listeners. We do try to understand their point of view and where they are coming from. But a lot of times it's just like these lies, gaslighting, word salad. It just doesn't seem to go anywhere. And it doesn't go anywhere because they're not even seeking a resolution. All they're seeking is validation, attention. They just want you to see them, to hear them, to acknowledge their existence. But it's like no matter how much you keep your eyes and ears on them, it is never enough. They're never satisfied. You can listen to a narcissist talk about themselves and their problems for hours. And it's just never enough for them. Nothing ever gets resolved. And that is why I decided to create this video this evening. Or at least this evening where I am here. And I'm going to tell you how you can win any argument with a narcissist. This is all you have to do. All you need is just this one word. And the one word that you need to win any argument with a narcissist is whatever. Whatever. Yes, that's all you've got to say. I don't know, it may sound very simple, but all that is is you are not feeding into the argument. Because this is the mistake that a lot of you make when you're arguing with a narcissist. That's the problem already. You're arguing. You are wasting your time arguing with a narcissist. No matter what you say, they're not going to understand your point of view. Narcissists are self-absorbed and they lack empathy. It's all about them. It's all about what they think, their perspective, their ideas and opinions. It's about what they believe. It's about their feelings, their wants, desires and needs. It's not about anyone else. It's not about your feelings. It's not about what you want, what you need. It's never going to be about you. So you are wasting your time by arguing with them. It's just going to drain the life out of you. That's all that's going to happen. You can argue with them until the cows come home. You're not going to get the result that you're looking for. Not from them, maybe from someone else, but not from a narcissist. Not from someone who is arrogant and entitled, self-absorbed and lacking empathy. You are not going to get what you want or what you need from them. And they are not going to understand you, no matter how much you may want them to. I mean I asked you the other thing a lot of times as well. It's like all of these arguments and I know what it's like. Of course I've experienced this so many times. They're just so egotistical and it's like can't we just drop the argument? Can't we just forget about it for once because it never goes anywhere. And you don't want to listen to me. You don't want to understand my point of view, my perspective. This is all about you, your feelings. Just this endless, biased one-sided argument. That never takes into consideration how I feel or what I want. I know what it's like when you're with a narcissist. You're conversing with them, you're having a conversation, you're arguing. You're having a disagreement. You just feel completely invisible. It's like and I'm sure many of you can relate to this.  Maybe you're reading a book. Maybe you're playing on your computer. You're on YouTube. Maybe you're watching TV.  And then whoop. In through the door. In comes the narcissist. And they're standing there. Waving their arms around. Complaining about something. Just going on and on. And it's just this headache in your ear. It's like just leave me alone. Just leave me alone for five minutes. But they don't stop. And then again it's like you're laying in bed. Could be at night. Could be 11, 12 o'clock at night.  And it could be anything.  I mean, it could be something where you forgot to turn on the washing machine. Or maybe you left the balcony or the patio door open. And then they come running into the broom yelling and screaming. Like somebody's died. And you just think, oh what's going on? What's the big deal? Are there other times they might wake you up first thing in the morning.  Like they have no energy of their own. Like they're like dead and lifeless. And you're like thinking to yourself it could be at 2 o'clock in the morning. Maybe at 6 a.m. they wake you up. And you think, oh whoa, where do you get all this energy from? When you can argue like 24 hours a day any time of the day you're ready to argue, ready to fight. But that is just it. All of that energy that's coming from you. When they're arguing with you. They're shouting, they're yelling, they're screaming. You're watching that. You're listening to it. And it's draining the life out of you. And all of that energy that you're losing where's that going that's going to them. It's fueling them. It's giving them narcissistic supply. And if they're doing something and it's giving them supply trust and believe that they are going to keep doing it. And they're never going to stop. They will poke and prod you. They will push your buttons to find what's going to get a reaction out of you. What's going to make you respond? What's going to make you care? Because when they do that it's giving them supply. It's transferring your energy to them. And that is why by the end of it it looks like they feel more alive. And you've just had the life drained out of you. I mean it's never like if you imagine if you and I were having a conversation and I might share something then you might. Then I might again then we just go back and forth and we're having a good conversation about something something that we both enjoy talking about. I mean that type of conversation it fuels both of us. It's not going to be one of us is drained but it is where they narcissist. It's always going to be us we're always the ones who are going to be drained and they're going to be fueled at our expense because they have a void that they are constantly trying to fill. So we are the ones who end up depleted in the end because you can interact with them all you like. You can engage with them all day every day not going to make a difference for you. You're not going to get anything out of it.  I can tell you that I have never had a conversation with a narcissistic person at least not with one who is not fully self aware where I have felt energised. That just doesn't happen. When you are interacting, engaging or conversing with a narcissistic person of course by the end of it you are going to feel drained and lifeless. You're going to lose a lot of your energy you're going to end up feeling confused your head's going to be all over the place you might not even remember what time it is, what day it is you might not even remember what your name is by the end of the conversation because of all of the word salad, the gaslighting all of the crazy things that they do and say and it's crazy have you ever seen the way that these narcissists interact it's just unreal it's nothing like a normal person it's like a wild animal out of a cage the way they stand there and they're just flailing their arms around like a crazy person I mean who does that it's like there's no self-composure they're just all over the place there's no control so I get it and I know some of you may feel guilty if you're an empath of course you will by wanting to win the argument and just using this one word saying whatever you might feel bad for doing that because you know they want to feel healed they want you to listen it's like you've done it so many times it never goes anywhere clearly they're not looking for a resolution and at some point it's just like what is even the point in doing this where is this going to go because we've had this conversation this argument so many times and it never goes anywhere it never resolves anything it never resolves in anything favorable for me or even for you even the narcissist doesn't really get anything out of it it's just they get their little high their supply and that's about it other than that it's like a junkie if they're just sniffing a line of coke get some high for a minute makes them feel a little bit better about themselves distracts them from their pain and shame from their own misery as they push it on to you suffocate you with it bring you down I mean that's the whole objective of it it's not meant to resolve anything especially not resolve anything for you they don't care but your feelings your wants, your needs they don't care about anything that you want as you can tell you can just see it the way that it's always all about them it's always all about their feelings their wants, their needs what you didn't do what they need you to do for them by the end of it you're just drained you just can't even be bothered they always pick the worst times to argue as well and sometimes you may be suspicious you may suspect like what is going on here just got into bed just laying down thought I'd get some sleep here comes the narcissist in through the door standing by the side of the bed arms flying around everywhere yelling and screaming no consideration for me or the neighbours or the children if you have any I just stand in there complaining as usual I need to think in what is going on there was all of this time earlier on throughout the day why did you decide to do this now at this time of night as soon as I just got in bed could have done this an hour ago just before I had a shower we could have talked about this earlier on when we were having food no why leave it to the last minute just before I sleep or why wake me up when I'm sleeping at 2, 3 o'clock in the morning or first thing before I go to work 6am can't even finish a proper sleep yeah you may be suspicious thinking is this planned is this premeditated believe it or not a lot of times it actually is yes they deliberately pick certain times to have these arguments when they assume that you're going to be feeling weak you're not going to have much energy they know you've had a long day maybe you've been working all day you just got home you're tired ready to get some sleep or they do it in the morning before you go to work they wake you up extra early because they know that's just going to ruin your day you're going to be tired all day and then when you get home they'll be at it again makes it easier for them to deliberately try to ruin your sleep routine because by doing that it weakens you and then when it comes to an argument you can't even defend yourself because you've got no energy left yes they know exactly what they're doing they're deliberately weakening you and breaking you down because not only do they want to argue with you to get supplied, to get reactions sometimes they actually like it when they see you, you're sitting there you've just got your head in your hands like you just can't do it anymore you don't even want to fight back it's like you've just given up, you've surrendered to them yeah they actually like that too makes them feel powerful like they've conquered you I'm sick, I know this is what they do and I know what it's like I've experienced it, I've been there and sometimes they do just do it deliberately they have something going on inside of them this internal chaos in their minds but they just can't rest it's this anxiety maybe even a little depression as well and they just have to use you as this vessel to carry their pain their emotions so that they can elevate themselves at your expense they're just miserable people they can't regulate their own emotions they have to use you as this external regulator and it is really unfair the way that we are just used like these tools these objects it affects our sense of self because they don't listen to us they don't even view us as people they don't want to hear what we have to say they don't want to make any effort to try to understand us and you know that's fine sometimes I mean if someone doesn't want to listen to you they don't want to understand you that's fine you can't always force someone to do that but the worst part is they're always there it's like they don't want to listen to you they don't want to understand you or try to share your perspective and yet they're always there and it's just always about them it's always about their emotions their needs it's always about their thoughts their opinions their perspective their interpretations their beliefs it's just always about them them them and it just never stops it never ends and at some point it's just like just leave me alone just stop I just don't want to hear it anymore and at this point I don't even care if I sound selfish I don't know that's what you're going to say you're going to call me selfish after I've listened to you for hours and hours every day and I haven't even said a word and then as soon as I stop listening to you I expect you to hear my side yes then here you come calling me selfish saying I only care about myself you know what that is that's just a projection they know what they are they know exactly what they're doing to you of course they know they don't listen to you they don't even try to understand you of course they recognise that and they don't care but deep down they do feel some shame for doing that for not taking the time to listen and understand you so then they've got to project that shame onto you by calling you selfish and there's really no limit to it I mean honestly I'm sure many of you you've experienced this already you can listen to the narcissist talk for one hour, two hours, three hours with no exaggeration they could be standing there with their arms flying around going on and on about nothing you're just sitting there listening to it all and then at some point I mean I could get to it it could be like 2 o'clock in the morning you get up you say alright I've listened to you I've had enough I'll go into bed whoops straight away the narcissist points at you they're calling you selfish you only care about yourself you never listen to them after you just listen to them go on and on for like two or three hours you never say a single word this is what we're dealing with it's what it's like isn't it I've experienced it I know many of you have as well and it's sad it's like we could just keep their mouths shut for a little while and I know that might sound a bit rude but we're talking about someone who just goes on and on for hours about themselves never considers anyone else so at some point it's like yes can you just keep this closed just for a minute and just listen to what I have to say for a change because yes I do have feelings I am a person I do have my own opinions I do have my own wants and needs I'm not a robot I'm not an inanimate object and you wouldn't want me to be that anyway because then you couldn't get your supply you want me to feel you want me to react and to respond but you don't want to pay attention to any of that you don't want to respond to it yourself you just want to use it for your own supply and yet when you get a fair amount of listening to them they've got the nerve to call you selfish and it's just crazy it's mind boggling how can someone go on and on like that all day every day and then you try to think of yourself just for one minute I mean maybe you you're just looking in the mirror in the bathroom you're doing your hair brushing your hair you're brushing your teeth whatever it is it's like you're just taking one minute to yourself the narcissist comes into the bathroom they start shouting about something again it is just insane you just can't even be yourself you can't even have one minute to yourself the narcissist is always there they're always on your case they never leave you alone at least not until they're heavily devaluing you and then they've got another source of supply lined up and then by that point you're really doing a lesson to what they have to say because it's like how can you argue with me how can you say anything about me when you've got another source of supply lined up you've got someone else on the side and do you want to tell me what to do no, I don't think so but this is how it is this is how these narks are they're crazy I mean they're not completely insane but they're not far off the things they do, the things they say the way that they go on and on and it seems like there's just no end to it gotta turn this heater down a bit it's getting pretty hot in here now it's good because it is very cold here in Japan so it's good to have a nice warm room yeah, how's everyone doing? I haven't paid too much attention to the live chat I know I went on a bit of a rant there sharing a bit of my own experiences I know what it's like but the narcissist is just endlessly arguing with you it's like there's just no end to it in sight and you really just have to stop feeding into it stop giving it all of your attention grey rock but also be aware that yes, they may ramp it up a bit as well if they see that they're not getting a response from you they may try something else I mean they will usually just try every trick in their toolbox until they manage to hook you on something and then once they've got the hook the baits then they reel you in and they've got you and that's all it's really designed to do they're never trying to listen to you or understand you they're just looking for what's going to get a response out of you so that they can get their hit their narcissistic supply and then that's it but yeah, let me know what's going on with you let me know your names, where are you from let me know about any arguments you've been having with the narcissist what's been going on with you Kyra official says hi from Indonesia what's the official? are you a singer? I haven't been to Indonesia yet I was recently in Malaysia which isn't too far away I may go to Indonesia eventually Skechish asks are you in Japan right now? yes, I am in Japan I'm in this town I think it's called Kochi I've just been travelling across a few islands driving in the car very expensive though going through all of the tolls I must have been through about 5 or 6 tolls in the last couple of days but it's been worth it though really amazing views beaches castles, temples, everything 1776 Gaming says that's another good point that you bring up they can't regulate their own emotions and they stop growing emotionally at 13 years old what age to stop growing? 13 of all numbers yeah, they can't regulate their own emotions but I wouldn't say that they all stopped growing emotionally at 13 actually from what I've researched it is quite a bit younger than that I mean many narcissists if you look at it they never learned empathy and typically a child will learn empathy between the ages of 2 and 3 and funny enough if you look at the narcissist when they're experiencing narcissistic injury and then you see their narcissistic rage they throw a temper tantrum it's a lot like a 2 or 3 year old child having a tantrum so it really does seem as though they are emotionally stunted at the development of a 2 or 3 year old child not even as far as a teenager I mean if they were emotionally developed to the level of a teenager then it would probably be a lot easier to converse with them and understand them Robert Fakes says I can tell narcissists put a lot of effort into that appearance and even if they're considered attractive by others' standards it really shouldn't matter to empaths yeah, you're right especially somatic narcissists they do put a lot of effort into that appearance but as I've said before with narcissists it's all about the false self and the illusion it's just this false image that they portray to the world to get supply so anything that people don't see or that doesn't tend to get supply they don't really pay too much attention to that which is why their hair could be perfect their makeup their clothing just their overall appearance but then you may know that narcissists behind the scenes and they're actually very filthy very dirty maybe they don't shower too often they don't brush their teeth I mean I'm sure many of you will know all of that and yet at the same time they present this immaculate image of themselves in public but it's really all fake that's just there for them to get supply they're not doing much when people aren't looking Lynette says seven months clean healing congratulations Lynette, glad to hear that it's great once you have some time away from the narcissist it's like you really begin to heal you feel a lot better your mind is a lot more clearer you can finally think for yourself everything begins to get better once you go into contact and you begin your healing journey once you're finally away from them we've got 111 live viewers only 29 thumbs ups so if you're finding this video helpful please show your support it's very important hit that thumbs up button down below it helps the YouTube algorithm to get this message out there to other survivors we've got Angela Nicoletti she says from cold snowy Finland I believe that's in northern Europe is it? I've never actually been there in Europe I've only been to France and obviously I'm from the UK as well I've travelled all over the UK as many of you may know I've been pretty much everywhere other than Brighton, Norwich and Northern Ireland other than that I've been pretty much everywhere in the UK I do love exploring especially my home country Colton Fish from Sweden another place I haven't been I'd imagine it's very cold there right now Prosperous Queen asks what do you do for work you're always in beautiful places this is actually my work what I'm doing here right now these videos I earn an income from the ad revenue and when people are kind enough to make a donation that's what allows me to travel and to be able to share these experiences with you and of course the travelling is very important to my research and to be able to share this information with you because it's all about interacting with people people from around the world to really understand human behaviour especially considering that narcissism is now affecting potentially the majority of the world's population and statistics show that only 1-2% of the world's population are empaths so travelling is definitely a big part of it and I think it's also inspiring as well for people to see that yes I've been through a lifetime of narcissistic abuse I've experienced all forms of abuse from a very young age and despite that I'm still living I'm still living my life and I'm still trying to live a positive and righteous life away from evil and immorality and I'm trying to motivate and inspire other people in the process as well so I think this all-around image that I present it's very important for the viewers to see this that I am still able to find peace and happiness in my day-to-day life that I can travel I can explore the world despite everything that I have been through it shows that if it's possible for me it is possible for you I'm always saying this Palestine or Israel I'm not really one to pick sides as you may know I have created a charity in my videos where you can donate for the children in Gaza because a lot of things have been going on there especially recently with the war that's really sad I've read a few of the articles seen some photographs and I don't know if it's maybe because of my own childhood a lot of the things that I went through I've never actually really spoken about what I've actually been through in my childhood but it's definitely one of the worst of what any child could go through that's probably why I haven't actually revealed it on this channel as it could be very disturbing to the viewers not so much that I'm not comfortable speaking about it I mean I have healed to some level from most of the things that I went through but yes I do believe that's why when I read those articles I saw those photographs those children they're injured many of them have nowhere to sleep nothing to eat I really feel something when I see that and it made me want to start this charity so that we can donate to this cause and yes all of the money it does go to the children in Gaza who are going through this war right now so if you could donate however much you choose to it doesn't matter how small it is I would greatly appreciate that and I'm sure the children there would greatly appreciate it as well just looking through the comments here in the live chat but yeah 119 live viewers only 36 thumbs ups if you found this video helpful so far please do give it a thumbs up down below very important it helps the channel Justin Bam sorry Justin Ram says she was friendly to everyone except me and the relationship she would invite others on dates without asking me cause she didn't want to be intimate with me sorry to hear that Justin I know what it's like it's not nice I mean this person makes you believe that they want a relationship with you that they desire intimacy and they string you along making you believe that reality is they don't really care about that it doesn't really interest them they don't feel what we feel and that actually affects them although it may seem like they don't show it like they don't really care deep down yes they do feel like something is wrong with them they recognise that they should be able to connect to you that they should have the desire to want to be intimate with you and they feel a lot of shame because of that which is why they then triangulate you with other people and they make it look like they're having this intimacy or these dates with other people to try to prove to you that they can do it when actually that's just another part of the illusion they're just further trying to manipulate you and punish you for everything that you saw wrong with them because you recognise that yes they can't be intimate and they don't like that they don't like how that makes them feel so don't worry too much about that Justin it's always an illusion with these knocks I mean you just gotta think if they can have these dates and be intimate with someone else why couldn't they do that with you they couldn't do it because they envied you they envied your ability to be intimate so then they went to go off and punish you but actually like they could be intimate with someone else when in reality they can't if they could they would have done that with you I've experienced it before only once only in one relationship to my knowledge there was one knock where there were times when I might try to kiss her and then she would pull away and would go out for a romantic dinner and then when the waiter came over she would like point at the candle and laugh and say he likes it so I know what it's like and it is very hurtful especially if you like this person and you want to experience intimacy and romance with them but they just can't do it they're very broken something happened to them a long time ago when they were children they didn't get the love they needed from their parents so I can't receive that love from you now I hope that helps Justin Craig asks can they get help has he not said it's ever gotten better it's funny because different people say different things I mean I've seen some videos from Dr Ramanee and Richard Granon they've said they've never seen anyone recover from NPD and as far as I know there is no cure for NPD they've said there are quite a few self aware narcissists who are on YouTube right now I mean there's one who's probably one of the first people to ever speak about narcissists which is of course Sam Vaknen he is a diagnosed narcissist and a self proclaimed psychopath but I did contact him not too long ago I requested to do an interview with him and I wanted to speak about how is it possible that he's a self aware narcissist when one of the main traits is that narcissists are not self aware funny enough he declined to do that interview but can they get help from what I've seen on YouTube I mean there's one narcissist who's meant to be self aware his name is Lee Hammock and there's another one as well I can't remember his name and there's also someone that I've been speaking to recently his name is Jack and I'm going to be doing an interview a live interview on YouTube with him very soon and he is also a diagnosed NPD he's been having therapy for the last few years as have Lee Hammock and the other one on YouTube so they most definitely can get help they don't tend to go to therapy on their own it's usually if they're experiencing some form of crisis in their life and they feel like their only option is to go to therapy to keep their supply their job, their family whatever it is so they go to therapy and then after a few months they're having to accept that yes it is them and they are being diagnosed with the disorder of course this is very rare but it can happen don't assume that it will happen with the narcissist that you are dealing with because as I said it's very rare it's very unlikely most of them will never become self aware Maureen Schmidt says I finally decided that I'd rather be a lonely old lady sorry to hear that Maureen I know I make these messages everyday about narcissists but honestly the last thing I want for anyone is to be lonely and old of course I don't want to see that what I want for everyone is to be able to move on past these narcissists to find someone who really loves and appreciates you nothing could make me happier meant to receive an email from you what you're saying that you have moved on you've healed you've met someone who loves you who respects you who wants the best for you honestly nothing would make me happier than that and I don't know maybe it's because it goes back to my childhood again all of the things that I experienced one of which was when I was very young I must have been 3 or 4 years old my parents had a divorce of course that's a very traumatic experience for a child to go through so maybe it's kind of healing for me to see two good people especially those who have experienced narcissists they've been through this and then for us to move on and find someone who loves and cares about us it's just an amazing thing it's really beautiful and I want that for all of you for everyone who is watching this right now I hope that you will all move on and have a healthy relationship with someone and not just be alone not just stay to yourself I mean that is the saddest thing in the world to me to think that someone has been so hurt so traumatised that the narcissist just affects power over your entire life to where you don't move on you don't even try again not wanting to trust anyone I mean if that happens you just let the narcissist win that means that I have failed at my job if you don't move on if you're in a healthy relationship where you're happy with someone else that means that I have failed that's what that means Angela is mentioning about my meditation yes a few years ago I remember I did two meditation videos I was going to do more I'm not sure how many views those meditation videos got but I may do more again I'll take a look at it and if there's the demand then of course why not I will do more it can be very relaxing and healing I'll also have a few more pre-recorded videos coming very soon I will be uploading the first one it should be within the next few days the content is going to change dramatically on the channel of course the live videos will still be the same but the regular videos are going to change I'm going to be much more involved in the content if you've just joined us please hit that thumbs up button down below very important very helpful to our community thank you just looking through this live chat there's a lot of comments here it's good to see conversation people have the support with other viewers on here as well that's what it's about it's good to have this community Angela says when they get intimate it is robotic yeah that's very true and that's really sad when you think about it even with all of the arguments it's like you think alright yes let's just get through this argument let's just drop it and let's just be intimate instead maybe you can just get some relief from that nope because they can't even really be intimate as Angela said yes it's always robotic you never feel like you're connected to them you never feel like they're actually seeing you they're hearing you like they actually recognize that you're even there that you even exist it's always just about them and sex and intimacy is no different if you desire true intimacy sex with analysis it'll be boring for them it's just about control it's narcissistic supply they're not really physically or sexually attracted to you or anyone else it's just a means to get supply and for you you may be desiring closeness it's like when you're trying to be intimate you want to put your arms around them you want to kiss them and they're just pulling away they just don't want to do it there's nothing for them we discuss them and I mean what kind of experience is that it's no good it's just not human it's not like you're dealing with a real human at all is it Jeanette says hi I am a Bangladeshi girl nice to meet you Jeanette I've actually dated a few Bangladeshi girls myself not for a while though I've also got Sujata from India nice to meet you Sujata welcome to the channel and nothing from India as well an usual name John Tracy says they flirt with every male in public in front of you oh I know I remember that so many times I've experienced that with narcissistic women all the time and it's like they do it to kind of shame you and to make you feel like something is wrong with you or you're not good enough when in fact it's actually the opposite it just shows how human you are you're not a robot like them you actually feel and the reason why they're doing it it may be unconscious at times but once I explain it you will recognise it from this point on they do this they flirt with other people in front of you they triangulate you especially after they discourage you they act like they've gone off now they're living their best life with someone else they're doing all of that because you wanted more from them you expected more because you thought you were dealing with a real human being rather than a robot and they just couldn't do it they couldn't open up to you they couldn't be vulnerable they couldn't be intimate they have an inability to do that they abandoned their true selves a long time ago all they've got is just this false character the false character cannot be vulnerable and then they start to feel a lot of shame because deep down they know that something is seriously wrong with them they know that they should be able to connect and be intimate with you yes they know that they should be able to do that so when you're pressing them and you're expecting this from them they feel a lot of shame they recognise that something is seriously wrong with them and then they try to deflect it onto you by flirting with other people in front of you by triangulating you with someone to try to prove to you that no, in fact it's you they can do it with someone else just not with you but what they're doing with other people is fake and you've injured their pride and ego just by expecting intimacy from them so of course by that point they don't even want to fake it with you they probably know that they can't they know that you will see right through it they know you're not going to be susceptible to it so that's why they do that alright, I think that's good for this video it's been quite a long evening 76 minutes but as always I do enjoy speaking with you reading and responding to your comments it's great to have this community where we can share together where we can understand each other because of course there's no understanding where these knocks is it but yes, if you found this video helpful please hit that thumbs up button down below it's very important as it helps a YouTube 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Let us now look at a special type of process known as a cycle. Of course, since we are in thermodynamic, this is a thermodynamic cycle. We have studied processes as a change of state. So we have an initial state and a final state. If it turns out that the initial state i and the final state f are the same, then that process is known as a cycle, process for which the initial state and final state are the same. So the minimal representation of a cycle would be something like this, simply a dot in the state space of the system in what? Indicating both the initial state as well as the final state. However, it is possible that as the process is executed, the system goes away from the initial state takes a very scenic route and comes back to the initial state and says, well, this is also my final state. So if it executes a cycle in a quasi-static way, so we will get perhaps a cycle like this. This is the depiction of a quasi-static cycle. So let me label it as A. So A is a quasi-static cycle. I can have another quasi-static cycle. Let me call it B. B is another quasi-static cycle. If you consider A throughout the process, the state was known because it was a state of equilibrium. But one could have, I will create another figure so as not to increase the clutter. Let us say this is the initial state as well as the final state and then let us say that the system takes some process but no state during that cyclic process is a state of equilibrium. So here is the depiction of a non-quasi-static cycle. Notice that this visual representation of the cycle by means of a dotted line is just a representation. The location of the dotted line does not mean anything. But whenever we have a quasi-static cycle, it is represented by a proper closed loop in the thermodynamic state space. Thank you.


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Hello friends and welcome again to another speed math session in this session We are going to learn another very effective technique and that is multiplication of two numbers near hundred So first of all, let's identify which two numbers are we going to multiply? So numbers near hundred mean means like 97 98 or even 85 so which is not that far from hundred on the other side as well You can have 1 1 1 not 1 1 not 7 Or 1 1 2 how far you can go and depends on how much you know tables you have already Remembered right so let me explain the technique so you can decide how far you can go for multiplication of such numbers Yeah, so let's first take case one case one is both are Both numbers we are going to multiply two numbers near hundred but less than hundred so numbers are a and b let's say and a and b or a and b are both less than hundred Okay, so a is less than hundred and b is also less than hundred and both are near hundred So we are not going to take a 49 47 48 51 76 like that No somewhere near hundred that is around 90s and 80s only okay, so let's start with an example So here is one example 97 and let's say you're you're to multiply this with 93. Okay Now see how far 97 is from hundred so it's actually minus three away y minus three because it is lesser than hundred So write minus three like that and how far is 93 clearly it is minus seven Isn't it now what you need to do is you simply? Add this column or sorry multiply this column. So if you multiply this column, what will you get? So you multiply with signs. Okay, so when you multiply you will get minus three into minus seven 21 Isn't it now what you need to do is you just? Do this operation 97 minus 7 right that means you will get what you will get 97 minus 7 is Right 9 0 2 1 so hence the answer is 9 0 2 see such a quick Method now you could have done this as well 93 minus 3 as well was 9 0 so either of that So it will become much clearer if I take another example So let's say example number. So this was one Let's take example number two So example number two is let's say 94 and 96 near hundred both of them How far is this number from hundred minus six away this one minus four? Isn't it now what you need to do as I told you product multiply these two numbers You will get 24 plus 24 and then either of this either you do this one or you do this one So 94 minus 4 if I do I will get 9 0. So this is the product of these two numbers 9 0 2 4 You can quickly check. Okay, another example. Let's take Another one. Let's say 97 already taken a 97 and 96 Okay, so again, how far is this number so minus 7? Sorry, this is not minus 7. This is minus 3. So this is minus 3 away 100 So minus 3 from 100 and this is minus 4 from 100 isn't it? So if you see this is minus 3 into minus 4 is 12 and Then 97 minus 4 so 93. So how quickly you can do the calculations? Now what happens when let's say you don't get a two-digit number when you multiply the unit's place What I mean is example number for it will be clear from here. So let's say if you have you have to multiply 98th and 99 So how far is 98 minus 2 and 99 minus 1 from 100, right? So if you multiply guys minus 2 times minus 1 you will get 2 But be careful. You don't you can't write only single digit. You have to place 2 digits while doing this Product now you will ask. I am getting only 2 so what to do So basically then you have to affix a 2 0 before that 2 so it becomes 0 2 not 2 Okay, so you have to fill 2 slots 2 digits, right? So 2 into 1 is 2 and then 0 2 I have to write and then rest is same. So 98 minus 1 is how much 97 so product is 9702 You can take another example. Let's say you have 98 and 97 now. So how far minus 2 how far minus 3? So if you product it minus 2 into minus 3 is plus 6, but you have to write 0 6 Is it and then 98 minus 3? 95 so this is the product. So this is how you can go on calculating now. What happens when Let's say You have the the first when you plot, you know multiply the units digits Then you get more than 2 digits. So let's take that example as well. So this is fifth 6th one so example like 91 times 87 Okay, 91 times 87. How far is this minus 9? Is it and this one minus 13? Is it a minus 13 and minus 9? Is that okay? So now you multiply this 13 9s are 117 Okay, so now you have to write the only 2 digits of 117 13 9s are 117 You have to write only 17 and let this one be here. Okay, and now do the similar operation 91 minus 13 We'll give you 78. Is it it 91 minus 13 is 78 plus this carry. So 79 so product is 7917 you understood what to do in case of a Multiplication giving you more than 2 digits. Let's let's understand with another example. So let's say you are multiplying 93 and 84 Okay, now. How far is this minus 7 200 and this one minus 16 200 now? Let's multiply 16 and 7 minus 16 times minus 7 is 112 correct. So you have to remember those tables as well. So 112 so but I will write this one as a carry I will write the 12 Tens and the units place digits there like as as it is But I will carry the hundredth digit hundred place digit now do the same thing. So this is easier calculation So 84 minus 7 is 77 so 77 by this calculation and this one so hence it becomes 78. So the product is 7812 I hope you Understood this part Okay, now we will take up what happens when the numbers are Greater than 100 so that will take up in the next session


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Hello everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and we are back with the next edition of Minuteman Tactics. As a reminder, we are using max velocities, tacticals, small units, tactical manual, tactical manual, small unit tactics, something like that. As our textbook for this college course, I highly recommend you read the chapter on offense before you watch this. However, if you don't care about that, don't worry, here we go. Just to be clear, this is of course, is not all there is to say about offense, but rather it's a start, right? It's some of the main principles and ideas that we have when it comes to offensive tactics. And it's not all of it. We could do probably an entire lecture series just on offense, you know, maybe we'll do that sometime. But right now, this is kind of the primer and the things you need to know in order to have a good framework for understanding, learning, and doing offensive tactics. And again, we are going to specifically look at it with an eye towards just the everyday Minuteman guy. And if China invades and Red Dawn happens, what does that mean for you and how you're going to operate? And what kind of offensive tactics and principles should you consider in how you're going to roll? So here we go. Okay, I'm pretty sure you can see these principles over here. So let's start with some basic principles that kind of help ground us a little bit, or maybe ideas of how we should think about offense. The first one you need to think about is ammo equals time, okay? Meaning that the faster you shoot, the less time you have, right? Because as you're shooting, when your gun runs empty, then you are of course mostly useless on the battlefield at that point as a fighter, right? Because you're out of bullets. So we don't need to be in a hurry to shoot. And in general, I like to shoot fast. I'm sure you like to shoot fast. And you know, I have a couple shooting standards where shooting fast is important and being able to dump a lot of rounds in a short amount of time is very important. However, in general, you need to understand that when you're in sustained contact or in a sustained attack, ammo equals time. And the more ammo you have, the more time you have to work things out and the less ammo you have, the less time you have to work things out. So you need to consider that as you consider your individual loadout, your team's loadout, and how fast you shoot, right? That's why earlier in the series we talked about fire control orders. Now I said, hey, you shouldn't have guys who are squared enough away to know about that and really think about their rate of fire. So you shouldn't need to issue these fire control orders. And I stand by that in our context of having some older guys who are a little bit smarter, a little bit wiser, they should be able to have enough self-control to remember that ammo is time. So you need to think about that as you're thinking about your tactics. Another principle, and this is probably my favorite, is cold aggression. He mentions that phrase in the book and I think that's a super helpful phrase. And you pick that up in other readings and other places, but this idea that, look, you need to be calculated. You're playing a chess match, right? You're not trying to be emotional. We don't necessarily want to be emotional fighters. We want to be cold aggression fighters. So we are emotionally cool and in that we are full of aggression to move things forward. Cold aggression. It's kind of a juxtaposition, kind of an oxymoron, and that's a good way to think of your offensive tactics is you're moving with cold aggression. It's calculated, it's thought out, it's not emotional, right? We're not reacting out of rage, like in good war movies, right? There's always lots of hot emotions. In general, you want to try to not operate like that, but have a cold aggression. You're continuing to press the enemy, you're continuing to push forward, you're continuing to be aggressive, you're continuing to hit them, and you're doing so with calculation and purpose and not just flailing about wildly. You see this a lot in UFC fighters, if you ever watch mixed martial arts or anything like that. There are fighters, right, who are emotional fighters. They're hot emotional fighters. And then there are fighters who are much more calculated, much more thinking. GSP, George St. Pierre is probably the most famous for being just kind of a calculated fighter, right? And some of his fights, a lot of his later fights, the older we got, were really boring because he was really good and really calculated and he never took risks, right? He had the cold part, like down to a T, but he wasn't aggressive to finish the fights. You want to have that calculated George St. Pierre mind and that extreme aggression to finish the fight. Some of you who don't watch fighting have no idea what I'm talking about. Don't worry, I think you get the idea. Momentum versus speed. So your attack doesn't necessarily need to be fast. It just needs to carry momentum. This is also a principle I learned when I took a CQB course. Speed isn't necessarily the end all be all, right? It doesn't necessarily need to be fast. It just needs to carry and keep that momentum. When bullets are flying and things are going bad, things will slow down. You're not going to operate at your fastest speed possible. It's certainly going to feel like things are operating quickly. It's about carrying that momentum. Remember, speed in combat isn't necessarily some objective measure of time. We need to do this task in this amount of time. You need to do that for your skill reloads and stuff like that, but that's not what I'm talking about. In the combat setting, speed isn't necessarily an objective measure. All you have to be is faster than the enemy and or faster than the enemy thinks you can be. That's it. That's the measure. It's a very subjective measure. The Marine Manual Tactics does a really good job of talking about speed. So if you're interested in further reading, I would tell you to look at that. But this whole idea that you just need to be faster than them or faster than they think you are. That's it. That's all you need to do for speed in order to be considered speedy on the battlefield. And to be able to carry that speed and carry that momentum and keep things moving, that's when you can really compound effects of your attack when you're able to keep the momentum up. You're able to take this position and then this one and this one and you're able to just keep that momentum up and keep going. Because you have four or five teams and you're able to rotate them through an assault cycle, which we'll talk about in a bit. But this idea of being able to keep up momentum and that's very difficult to do when people start to get tired or run out of water, run out of ammo or are injured or whatever. But being able to keep up the momentum is very important. Leaders lead. So I put this one in here because you may or may not think about it this way, but a leader's job on the battlefield is to lead. Their job is to not shoot. Their job is to direct people and organize the fight. That's their job. Their job is to lead and manage and organize the fight so that it goes well. This is why and historically in a lot of like particularly European armies, uh, they didn't even issue rifles or long guns to like lieutenants and combat leaders, they just gave them a pistol because in general their job is, their job is into shoot. Right? That's a secondary, tertiary function for a leader that is certainly not even close to a primary function. Their primary function is to lead. And that means you know physically moving your body. Hey, follow me. We're going this way. Right? That means, hey, I need alpha team over here, I need bravo team over here, and then myself and Charlie team are gonna lead the way in here. Like, that's leading. You need to manage and direct the fight. And this is kind of a silly example, but I was playing some first person shooter computer game with some of my friends, and we were trying to work things out, and I was directing them where to go so that we could do stuff. And every match, the bottom of the match, I had the least amount of kills, right? Because I'm not shooting. I'm telling them where to go so we can keep the shooting up, right? And again, I think that's a really small, silly example of how it works in real life. Leaders lead. You can ask that anyone who's been in the service, and they're gonna tell you that the good leaders are gonna lead and aren't getting preoccupied with shooting. If they're getting preoccupied with shooting, they're not leading, and that's a problem. So you need to put someone in that position who you trust to be able to do the leading and the thinking. Whether or not they shoot, I mean, they should be a good shooter by nature of having risen to that position, but that's really not the point. That's not their purpose. We don't need them to shoot. What we needed them to do is think and direct and lead. Super important, especially when it comes to attacks when, you know, that's scary because you have to usually expose yourself a little bit to get to where you're going, and the defenders are possibly already set, and that's a whole, whole problem. The last one is friction. You need to understand friction, right? Friction also, you know, some people refer to it as the fog of war, right? Like, things are crazy. You don't understand what's going on. You need to understand friction in two capacities. One, you will experience friction, right? When bullets start flying, simple tasks become very difficult, right? Read any combat account, read any study of it. That's just life. This is how it is. Why? Because you're getting shot at and people are trying to kill you, so all of a sudden simple things become super difficult, right? That's friction. It's gumming up the gears. Things that worked really smooth yesterday in training all of a sudden now are really difficult to do, which is why we rehearse these things ad nauseum so that you can do it when you're drunk and asleep and you're still able to function it, you're still able to know the process and just do it, right? Because when friction happens, we fall to our lowest level of training that we have mastered, right? You've heard that thing. You're not gonna rise to the occasion. James Yeager used to say this all the time, which was great. You're not gonna rise to the occasion. You will fall to the lowest level of training that you have mastered, and that's true.  You fall to the lowest level of training you have mastered. So you need to understand friction from that perspective. You also need to understand friction from trying to cause as much friction on the enemy as possible, right? When you are on an attack or even on defense, you are trying to cause the enemy friction, general chaos, and we're doing that by sending the pew-pews. We're trying to cause them as much friction as possible so their processes break down. So we're gonna see what their highest level of training is that they have mastered, right? We're gonna see how far we can knock them down to what training they have mastered. So that friction cuts both ways. It happens to everyone, and you need to try to inflict friction while having good, solid processes to work through your own friction. It's gonna be inevitable, you're gonna have it. The only question is, how are you gonna deal with it? So as we think about offense, these are some helpful thought categories or principles that you should definitely keep in mind. Now let's talk about some other definitions here. There's always this hasty versus deliberate kind of thought or how they break things down. There's a hasty ambush or a hasty attack versus a deliberate ambush or a deliberate attack, right? Just planned versus unplanned is the short of that, right? Hasty means like, hey, we were out walking and we spotted these guys and we decided we're gonna attack them. That's a hasty attack. Now, bigger level here, think about that. Is that something as just an everyday guy when Red Dawn happens and China invades that you're gonna do? Maybe, maybe not. I don't know, right? But probably not. If you're rolling around with six or eight guys, chances are you're not just gonna attack anything that you see, right? You're probably more likely gonna fall into the deliberate category, right? You're probably gonna be planning sabotages or raids or ambushes, right? You're gonna be thinking more insurgent-like. You're probably not just trolling around, looking for a fight. No, maybe, but probably not. You're probably gonna be much more into the deliberate kind of category. That still means you still need to understand how to do hasty drills, right? Like a break contact drill. Because again, you take contact, you don't wanna be there, right? You need to understand how to do that. We'll cover some more of this when we get to patrols. However, you just need to understand this distinction between like a hasty attack. We're just walking around. Oh, there's some guys.  Okay, we know these guys are here. We know this is their disposition. You know, we've done some recon for the past week. And this is our plan to go in there and attack that. Suppressive fire. This was just a note from the book that I think is important.  That's what it is. And it's enough volume of that fire that they all have to take cover or become a casualty. That's what we want to do. We want to either force the enemy to take cover or become a casualty. One of the more helpful offensive battle drills that it's helpful to rehearse with your guys is the assault through. And by rehearse, I mean you can do this on a 20-yard by 20-yard plot of land with dry rifles, right? There's no active shooting involved to rehearse this. And when you rehearse it, I would suggest that first you lead it through and rehearse it, then Bob leads it through and rehearse it, then Joe, and just go through everybody and then start over and do it again. So everybody has to lead through it to understand it. You'll be amazed. Some guy will sit there five times or walk through it, but then when it's his turn to lead through it, all of a sudden he stutters and struggles, right? Because now he's forced to actually think about it. I like the assault through as a thought through process. Not necessarily because you'll be doing this. If you have no idea what an assault through is, don't worry, we're getting there. However, I like it as a good training process because it walks through kind of a general hasty attack cycle and how that might look. And there's a lot of different complicated pieces to it that help people understand how we're gonna operate together as a team. So it's slightly practical. Again, as your everyday Minuteman guy, you may or may not use it, but it's super helpful to start building team cohesion and how people work together. So I think this is actually a really good drill to start through. So here's how that rehearsal looks. Let's say you got a team of four guys. So your four guys, you're gonna say, here's us. Here is the bad guy, okay? That's the bad guy position. So we take contact, right? You can just talk this through as you rehearse this. Everybody takes cover and starts returning fire. This is gonna be your Alpha team. That'll be your base of support by fire, your base of fire position. They're gonna continue to keep the enemy suppressed. We just talked about what that means. Your Bravo team here, they're going to flank the bad guy. So they're gonna walk over here. They're gonna walk up here. Again, this is just rehearsing this. This could be on like 10 yards of land, right? Not a big deal. And they're going to get to an assault position. Now an assault through, if you don't know what that is, that's where everybody literally stands up, walks through the enemy position and puts two or three or five or whatever your SOP rounds in to any bad guy. Dead or alive doesn't matter.  That's an assault through. We're just gonna stand and walk through our assault through shooting everything that is a bad guy. Dead or alive doesn't matter to make sure, right? So, typically you get to within like 35 yards. That's what the manuals say. Again, there's some flex here, okay? This is a battle drill. It's a starting point, not an ending point, okay? So as these guys stand up and start to walk through the enemy position, these guys are gonna shift their fire. Initially they're trying to suppress the guy, but as your team starts to enter here, they need to shift fire over here. One, because you don't wanna shoot your own guys.  That could be an option, right? Or to prevent them from escaping in that direction, right? There are a couple of reasons you shift fire. The first one is to not shoot your own guys. The second one is to suppress either a different position or prevent an avenue of escape. So, your Bravo team assaults through, okay? And they end up right here. It's guy one, it's guy two. Then your Alpha team will then assault through this way and they'll end up right here. And again, you could do this with two full fire teams. You could do this with two full squads. This is absolutely scalable, okay? We're just saying four guys because this is an easy way to rehearse it. So you end up in this little L here and facing out. Now at this point, the typical acronym from the Army is BLAST, B-L-A-S-T. Blood Sweep, check yourself for, you know, make sure you didn't get shot because you're on adrenaline and you might not necessarily know. Lights on, they'll turn their weapon lights on. We're not gonna do that because we don't care. You can if you want in your team, but whatever. A is ACE report or IU's LACE report, which we covered earlier in the series, right? Liquid Ammo Casualty Equipment, Green, Yellow, Red. So we covered that in one of the earlier videos. And so ACE report, B-L-A-S is SAWS out. You don't have any SAWS, but if you had automatic weapon SAWS, you'd put them facing out, right, on your corners so that you can get effective protection in fields of fire. And then the last one is T Tactical Reload. So all of you guys would tactical reload, not at the same time, right? You wanna break that up, either having a team do it at a time or do it in buddy pairs or whatever you decide your SOP is. Now I just use BLT for the everyday Minuteman, right? Blood Sweep, LACE report, Tactical Reload. We don't need to turn our lights on, we don't have SAWS, so I'm not gonna cover that, right? So as an everyday kind of guy, I just use BLT. Blood Sweep, LACE report, TAC Reload. So everybody does that, okay?  Now if you're doing this in a squad, right? Then are you doing this in a, yeah, a squad. Then the squad leader would ask for LACE reports, he would get a LACE report from Alpha Team Lead and Bravo Team Lead, right? He doesn't need all of them. The team leads collect the LACE reports from their guys and then issue that up. And then if we're doing this as a platoon level, well then all the team leads would get their LACE reports, they'd give it to their squad leader. All the squad leader would give all his teams LACE reports to the platoon leader, right? That's how you do so you flow up the chain. So it's not 30 guys yelling out LACE reports because obviously that's insane. Now, again, typical military assault through here, you're gonna do a couple different things to exploit this area that you just assaulted through, right? By the way, when you reach this line, this is called the LOA, I didn't mention that earlier, or line of advance, right? That's where your team lead would shout out LOA, LOA, and that way everybody knows to stop. We've reached our point of advance, now our assault through is complete, right? And typically in the manuals, they say that's 35 meters past the last dead body because they consider that outside of grenade range. You alter your SOPs accordingly, okay? Now, after we've done our assault through, so again, we've had Bravo team come through, we've had Alpha team come through, we've ended up in this L. We're going to send in our EPW team. That's enemy prisoner of war, we'll talk about what that means.  So enemy prisoner of war team goes in first. That would just be a buddy pair, maybe before guys, depends on how big your element is. They go back through and make sure that all of the bad guys are in fact dead, right? There's no booby traps. They're basically marking the bodies that they've all been disarmed and checked that there's no booby traps.  That's what the enemy prisoner of war team does. After they have secured the assault through zone, right? Then you send in your own aid and litter team to collect your own casualties. You don't do that first, obviously, because you don't want to expose your team to further danger until you've been sure that you've cleared the zone is safe to enter. So then the aid and litter team would go in and get your own guys, right? That could just be a buddy pair that's been assigned ahead of time. At the same time, you could send in your search team. Your search team is going to go through now and actually do a detailed search of the bodies, right? Looking for documents, weapons, bullets, whatever it is that you want to be searching for, right? And again, these could all just be buddy pair teams. This could be a whole fire team. This could be Bob from Alpha team and George from Bravo team, right? However you want to break these down and task organized, that's up to you. But these are generally the teams that you send through. The last one then is the demo team. In the military, they blow up everything that they're not taking with them, right? You don't have explosives, so you'll have to figure out how you want to do that part. But this is the general assault through process. Now that's a lot. And I really like working through that process with a team. That's gonna help everybody know how the whole process works. You have to balance a lot of things at once. You have to remember a lot of different things in different steps. And it helps build team cohesion while at the same time being practical.  There are two more techniques that he talks about in the book. One of them is a skirmish line. We already talked about that previously, one of the prior videos. The other is what he calls the move and fire technique. So basically you have a team of let's say four guys. This team is set, not moving, providing a suppressive fire. This team gets up and walks and just gets up and walks and still shoots as they're walking. And then they stop five, seven yards, whatever. And then they're set and they're still shooting. And then these guys get up and walk and then they shoot. Again, it could be successive or it could be alternating violence. We talked about that earlier in the series. But the idea is that instead of I'm gonna stop shooting, I'm gonna get up and move and scramble them in exposition. I'm gonna get up and walk there while still shooting so that we have a constant volume of fire going down range. I have not practiced this one a whole bunch, so I don't really have a lot of thoughts for you on that one. But that is a technique that I certainly think is worth considering. And there could be a use case for that. So consider that one. The other technique that he talks about in the book is a bunker assault or a trench assault. And this he really pulls straight from any US military manual. I would assume the British ones are pretty similar. But with that, if you have, let's say a bad guy bunker appeared, right? And they're shooting this way. So let's say you started taking fire from this bunker here and your team was down here. Part of your team will remain here and do their best to suppress the bunker. Your other team would go by some kind of circuitous route and you're trying to get a buddy pair to sneak up onto this bunker.  And two of those guys are gonna go in to do the final assault on the bunker while the other two pull security in this direction or provide overwatch or whatever. They could do a variety of things out there. But the idea is, and in the military manuals, really specific, it's like the Grenadier and Automatic Rifleman are the two that go in. But basically you're gonna go in, one guy wants to pitch a grenade in and then the two guys go in and clear the area. Again, you don't have grenades, so you're gonna have to think about what that would mean and how you would do that. But this is, again, you can find this in almost any American military manual of a basic bunker assault. Again, remember, battle drills are starting points, not end points. One of the things that's discussed in the textbook that is extremely helpful is assault cycles or how to move three teams through assaulting something to keep up that momentum while maintaining a reserve and maintaining an assaulting and suppressive element. So this is a potential way to do that. There are other versions of this. Pool in the last hundred yards also gives some other examples. He doesn't call them this, but it's essentially what they are when he goes through the urban warfare sections. So let's just use positions, we'll just say their houses for right now as an example. Right? Let's say you have a bad guy in this building here and this building and this building. Let's say you have three elements. That could be three pairs, although hopefully not if you're getting into this kind of stuff, but or three fire teams. This is for right now, let's just say it's three different fire teams, so four guys each.  A way that you could do this assault cycle is you could have Alpha and Bravo suppress these two positions accordingly. Charlie would come up and take this position here. So now Charlie owns this position. Right? And again, that could be an assault through that we just talked about. That could be some CQB stuff because I got a clear house out. That could be the trench bunker assault that we just talked about, whatever. That could be however you're gonna handle that. That could be some way of occupying that position. At that point, Charlie could suppress both these positions. Bravo team could be unrest and or move up here to cover a flank. Right? Alpha team could move up to assault this position. Again, that could be the assault through. That could be the trench bunker, whatever. Now Charlie and Alpha team together will suppress this position while Bravo team comes in to assault this position. And then you can see how this is scalable, right? This can go on and on and on saying you have more positions over here or whatever, and then you're gonna continue to rotate those through. So the basic idea, right, is that you have one team that's support by fire, suppressing the enemy. One team that's assaulting and one team that's either covering up in a security element or in a reserve position, right? If it's a security, because maybe, hey, you don't know what's out here over here on this flank and maybe there's also a bad guy over here and they're attacking you. That's why we sent Bravo up there initially when we sent Charlie into assault, right? There's a reason for that. So what we wanna do is maintain a suppressive element and assault element in a reserve or security element and then cycle through those elements as we need to.  That way everybody shares risk equally among the team. You're able to arrest your guys and you're able to keep up that momentum. This can get complicated and when you start thinking about this on large scales, it can obviously get like really big, really quick. However, on a small unit tactics deal, this can be a very useful thing. Even if you only have six guys, when you understand this in principle, you can understand how to better reduce problems. Now, let's discuss flanking a little bit here. In the book, he makes a very good case for the 90 degree flank and in traditional American military doctrine, that's what we do, right? So we have a bad guy position up here. We have our Alpha team here. We send our Bravo team around right here and we attack, right? So even if we don't assault through, even if we just shoot at them, right? You have a nice 90 degree angle by which you are shooting the bad guy. We've talked about this before in other videos, right? But this is traditional American military doctrine, especially once you get into assault throughs, this way, A, Alpha team doesn't have to shift their fire until the last possible minute, right? If Bravo team were only at like this, weird 45 degree flank and came in, well then Alpha team's gonna have to shift their fire sooner, right? Let's say this is their cone of fire, right?  So that's typically why American military doctrine prefers the 90 degree flank. Another thing you have to understand is this is designed around machine guns. I say this is designed around machine guns because you don't have any machine guns. And the idea here is that you're dumping a high volume of firepower into that bad guy from your machine guns. So when your team comes in here, you're lifting and shifting fire away. Machine guns are not known for their pinpoint accuracy. I say that because other countries around the world have done it different and for you this bears considering. Because you only have riflemen and again, hopefully they're more squared away guys who know what they're doing, you might wanna consider trying to send Bravo team all the way around to do a 180 so that the bad guy now has to fight in two different directions. If you think that's insane, you can look at German military doctrine from World War II where they did have machine guns and they would do this typically. It's also a bigger thing among Eastern armies to try to completely encircle the bad guy or at least get a 180 on them. So these are things worth considering and what does a flank mean to our team? How do we want to handle that? Are we comfortable with the potential risk here? Well, maybe if we say this is, if that's flat ground, definitely not. However, if maybe there's a very large piece of cover between the bad guy and us and we're confident that we can get all the way around them and then our friendly bullets are gonna hit that cover before they hit us, well then maybe we're gonna do that. You have to decide for you and your team and have some honest discussion about whether or not you trust people to do something like this versus just a 90 degree flank. This, I would much rather not be this guy, right?  However, I'd take my chances with that before I'd take it with this. So you have to decide for your team what that means, what your risk adversity or acceptance level is and how you'd wanna run your tactics based off that. When we talk about levels of warfare, the military manual is typically talked about three levels of warfare. There's the strategic, there's the operational and there's the tactical. The strategic is the big geopolitical thing, like, hey, we are partnering with these allies to do this thing in this nation to achieve these political aims, whatever. That's the big strategic level thing, okay? There's the operational, which is usually like in a theater of war or in a large area of operation. We're talking like hundreds of miles, right? That's the operational. Well, we're trying to push them from the south and pinch them from the north and cut off their oil supply and the big stuff. Then there's the tactical level, right? Which gets all the way down to that nitty gritty like you and your buddy behind that tree trying to get the bad guy over there behind the wall, right? Like on a small tactical level. You need to understand that what you do here influences what happens all the way up here. That might sound silly, but if you think about during World War I, Germany invaded through Belgium, right? And they came down into France through Belgium. And when they were there, they committed several war crimes, right? They had like some sniper in a village. So they rounded everybody up in the village and shot them all, right? That was a tactical level decision. Hey, we're getting sniped at here.  These people know what the problem is. They're not saying anything. We're just gonna start shooting them until we find out who the sniper is because all I care about is my guy's not dying right now. Well, when you do that, that boils all the way up to the strategic level. And now the Germans are painted as horrible monsters and evil people and how dare they could just execute innocent civilians. And it paints you in a very bad geopolitical strategic light. You need to understand that all wars are political. All wars, every war in human history ever was a political war. And what happened at the small tactical level influenced what happened at the huge geopolitical strategic level. That's true of all wars in human history ever. I bring this up because I'm always shocked by what I read very smart people in books and they say, we don't care what happens up there and the generals and their officers and all their fancy titles. What I care about is making sure me and my guys survive and I'll do anything I have to to make sure that they survive. And that's why all wars should be total wars and we should just do everything we can to obliterate the enemy as fast as we possibly can and as brutally as we can so they never screw with us again. And I've never been in combat and I certainly have sympathy for that perspective but what I would challenge those people to think is that you have to understand that all your actions on the tactical level boil up to the geopolitical level and that whatever war it is you're fighting you're there for a geopolitical aim. That's true of revolutions, that's true of civil wars, that's true of world wars, it's true of all the wars that humans have ever fought. And you need to understand that what you and your crew decide to do in the tactical level will influence the grand conflict that you're involved in. So if China invades tomorrow and it's red dawn is happening and your team decides to do X that will have a consequence Y on the large issue of getting China out of America. Those things matter. So you need to consider that when making your choices. Now the last thing we're gonna discuss here is forms of offensive maneuver. Now typically these are up at like the battalion level or bigger where we're gonna do a frontal assault with this division here but that's not what you're concerned with. We bring these in because they do work even at the minor tactical level and I think it's important to have categories to understand how you're placing your attacks and how you're planning through and thinking through your attacks. So the typical forms of maneuver and I'm just pulling this straight from the United States military manual, right? You have enveloping, turning, infiltration, penetration, frontal and flanking attacks. Now again, typically when the big army talks about this they're talking about big army stuff, right? Like divisions. Like we're gonna envelop this entire division by setting a division in here and setting them around but this works on the tactical level. So first of all, enveloping. An envelopment is here's the bad guy, here's you. You are trying to envelop the enemy kind of like that 180 that we talked about earlier. In order to, and this is important, in order to destroy them in place, okay?  This could be a single envelopment. This could be a double envelopment, right? Now again, if you think about this as divisions this makes more sense, right?  Think about this as like a division. This is an entire division and we're sending another division over here and we're sending another one here to trap these three divisions in this big envelopment and then we're gonna cut them off from supply and crush them, right? But this works at the tactical level too where you're trying to just isolate that bad guy. The most famous double envelopment probably in the history of the world was the battle of Kanai, Kanai, where Hannibal just completely crushed the Roman legions in like 212 BC, 225. I can't remember the exact date. I did a video on that battle. It's on this channel. But you gotta think through envelopments, right? Napoleon did some envelopments. Scipio-Africanus did some envelopments. Like there are some fairly famous envelopments in the world and it's considered one of the premier forms of maneuver on the big level because you're able to surround and cut off and destroy elements in place and that obviously has good consequences for you. So you can think about envelopments all the way down to the squad level and how you would use that form of offensive maneuver in order to problem solve the situation that you have in front of you. The next one is a turning motion. Turning is set up very similar. So here's you, here's the bad guy and you're gonna send guys back here in order to get the enemy to leave their current positions and then come fight you back here, right? Maybe that's an oil depot that you're seizing back there because you want them, they have a very strong defensive position here so you're trying to turn them so they have to leave their strong defensive position to come back and protect their ammo dump or their gas dump or their water supply or whatever. It's an envelopment with the end goal of trying to get them to leave their current position and go fight you somewhere else. You're turning the battle, okay? Again, you can think about this on the tactical level, right? If your enemy's in a strong position here but you know that back there is their aid station or whatever and if you can get back there they're gonna be forced to turn to defend that well that might put you in a more advantageous tactical position. Think about it. The next one is infiltration. Infiltration is probably very useful for you as just an everyday minute man guy, big army as far as I can tell, never does this and I'm honestly surprised it's even in their manual but an infiltration is, let's say you have a huge city full of bad guys. Well you're gonna sneak, sneak, sneak a buddy pair in here and sneak, sneak, sneak a buddy pair in here and sneak, sneak, sneak a buddy pair in and all of a sudden you've infiltrated the city, right? All of a sudden you've got 400 guys in that city that all just came in and buddy pairs over the course of like a month and are just hanging out waiting for the attack and then they're gonna attack from the inside, right? That's an infiltration. The Japanese during World War II were extremely good at infiltration where they would sneak between foxholes, right? World War I, when you look at the Germans extremely good at infiltration, right? So this idea of just sneaking past whatever the enemy's defenses are, again that's all the way down to like foxholes and literally crawling between foxholes all the way up to sneaking guys into like a city or a big defensive position or a region or a mountain region or whatever in order to get past the enemy defenses and sneak in and then attack from the inside out. John Poole spends a lot of time talking about this because he's super fascinated with Eastern armies and this is typically an Eastern tactic. The next one's penetration. So for the penetration, basically let's say you have a defensive line, let's say it's barbed wire, and a bunch of bad guy foxholes. You're going to cause a breach in the foxhole or in the barbed wire in the foxholes. You're gonna attack laterally aside so you're finding a inflection point. You're gonna punch through that inflection point and then you're gonna explode and expand through that, right? Then you have follow-on teams who come in through that opening that you just made and go attack objectives in the rear and command centers and whatever, right? Typically you think of this kind of attack again you're trying to breach the wire or breach the wall, right? That's a penetration attack. You're trying to make a opening where there wasn't one before and then flood your guys through. That's a good, you can think about this again all the way down to that attack level with the barbed wire and the foxholes or the wall or whatever where you're trying to find that weak point and then snap it and then send everything in through there. You're basically, if you think about this like medieval warfare, you're creating a gate, right? And then you're flooding through. The next one is a frontal attack which basically as an everyday minute man without the resources of big army you should never ever do because that's just where here's the bad guy and you're just gonna send everybody in straight up the middle, up the front and usually what you're doing here is you're using overwhelming majority of firepower and force to completely bulldoze and crush the enemy, right? If you're a much larger element against a much smaller element you can get away with this. This is usually something we use to just bulldoze. Again, for you being an everyday guy and a minute man when Red Dawn happens you probably don't have the resources to do frontal attacks. So you should probably avoid that at all costs. What you should certainly understand what it is so that you can avoid it and also in case it was ever done to you, right? But you need to understand what a frontal attack is. The last one is flanking, right? Which we've already discussed here because you will have a support by fire element. You'll get another element out here and you'll attack from that 90 degrees versus the 180 or the envelopments that we talked about earlier. Two things that I want to note for the last thing in this video. The first one is follow on actions. When you're planning a deliberate attacks think about follow on actions. Follow on actions are, well if we're successful with objective A what's our objective B? If we're able to make this happen what's something else we could do to exploit that and benefit even more from this attack? What are our follow on actions in order to increase the effectiveness and momentum of this attack, right? It could also be you should have contingencies, maybe I should put slash contingencies here. What if this attack fails? Or what if this happens? Or what if the car won't start? Or what if this major piece of equipment fails? What are our contingency plans? Follow on and contingencies are important things when planning operations. And that could be as small as again you and your six guys trying to sabotage this light pole for this red dawn Chinese military base, right? You need to think about that and what are your follow on and contingency actions? The last one is surprise. Never underestimate the value of surprise. And as a small unit you need to harness surprise as much as possible. We talked about this earlier in the series when discussing camouflage and kind of the importance of that especially at the small unit level because you need to harness as much surprise as possible because you don't have firepower.  Rather, you have to use sneaky surprise in order to gain your advantage. The advantage of course, you're a smaller unit so it's easier to garner that surprise but you still have to work a ton to maintain and generate surprise. So think about that as a big principle when thinking about your red dawn offensive tactics. That's all I got for you today. I hope this was helpful. Again, this is just the tip of the iceberg and you can go as deep down this rabbit hole as you want. Do brave deeds and endure.


Hi there, I'm Sandy Allnock, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and I'm gonna continue my series in the watercolor flower series number 22, believe it or not, with some loose watercolor flower cards. Ellen Hudson and Honey Bee Stamps are partnering for this United We Flourish set called Sending Sunshine and it's stamps and dies together. They're available for a limited period of time. If you like doing sunshine and happy, really super happy sentiments, these pair up really well. They make some cute phrases and you can customize them in all kinds of different ways. And the dies come with that whole little set that you can put right in the same stamp envelope and store them all together. Now I have a watercolor flowers class on my art-classes.com website. The link is in the doobly-doo down below if you're interested in checking it out. But one of the things that I've, I didn't do in the class that I'm really practicing doing, I'm trying to get looser and what I find, this is my, my biggest two tips for you in this video are to use a big brush. I'm using a number 12. These are 5 by 7 cards, so they're nice and big, so I have lots of room to work. And I'm also working really fast. I challenge myself to just, this is sped up two times, but literally this is like the fastest painting I think I've ever done. And I'm really happy with the loose look that I'm getting when I work this quickly. I started doing a lot of that when I was working last month on World Watercolor Month and trying to just fill sketchbooks and trying to see how quickly I could paint something. And it really is making a difference in loosening me up. And of course a lot of practices as well. But using the large brush makes sure that I'm not going to get lost in little tiny details. These cards are nice and big, they're 5 by 7, so I have room to work. I'm not feeling like I'm stuck on a little 4 and a quarter by 5 and a half type of surface. And I played around with painting the roses in different kinds of sprays across both watercolor cards. These are 5 by 7 cards, so they're, they open on the inside and they go in an envelope. The envelopes come with them. They're on canson paper. They're not on arches, but they're on a student grade kind of paper, so they work really well for this. And I'm playing around with different kinds of layouts for the flowers on them. So you can do flowers all over every square inch of it, make a whole background. You can do just a spray of them. Lots of different ways. You can do that in the watercolor flowers class. We learned a couple different ways to use these roses, and I thought I'd share this so that people have taken that class can also see another way to do it. And one thing I did here, I was trying to figure out how not to get the green to always mix with the pink because green and pink together are going to make brown eventually. So I didn't want to mix them too much together, green and yellow work. But when you start getting the green and the pink together, they'll start making mush. It's just leaving a little white space in between them. So leaving that on the right hand side, that card with lots of white on it or filling the whole background, whatever you do with these, they're just happy cards. And it's really easy to make quick happy cards and practice your watercoloring, practice loosening up. This is one of the postcards, so it's going to be horizontal. And I'm going to put a different arrangement of the roses on them. I'm going to do them maybe off to the side a little bit. And as I'm doing this, I'm not really thinking too much. I'm trying not to say, I'm going to do a layout that's like this. As I'm trying to do my voiceover, I'm trying to recall what I was actually thinking. And there wasn't a whole lot that I was thinking other than I wanted some green for them to sit on. So there was kind of some ground underneath of them, some something for them to rest on. And then just throwing some happy color in up in the corner. And I liked on the earlier one where I had lots of white space instead of filling in the whole thing. So I'm going to leave a lot of this card just empty and not really stress out about putting more on it. This is the snapdragons that are also taught in the class. And this is another one is loose, free, quick, easy. Just let your brush dance around. Don't fuss over it. Don't stress because as soon as you start to, then they start getting very labored. And here I'm even getting like some crazy color mixing because I've got my pink and my yellow right next to each other. And I'm just letting it mix. I'm even putting more water down so it will mix even more. You can layer on a little bit more. And if there's some places where you want a few hard edges, you can let it dry first. But I challenge you to just let it be wet, let it be loose, let the color flow. You know, you love watching the color mix, so let yourself do it. Don't just say, I'll only watch when Sandy does that.  That is what that's why I do this.  So pick up a pack of the postcards or the folded cards and try it. I just dare you to try it. And then you'll have these cards full of happy, beautiful color. Look at these postcards. Wouldn't you love to get that in the mail? Like seriously, those are just gorgeous. And for those who are wondering about these postcards and greeting cards and whether or not they actually work for other styles, well, check it out. I did these Facebook live videos during World Watercolor Month in July. I will have links for them on my blog if you want to watch any one of these four. And yeah, you can see other styles that you can paint on these cards. Well, thank you so much for joining me for this video. You can click on my face to subscribe. You can click there for the flowers class. You can watch some other videos, whatever you want to do. Go check out the other twenty one in the Watercolor Flower series. If you're really an insomniac, that's a really good thing to do. And I will see you guys later. Bye bye.