-machy, -machia, -machist, -machic, -machical +
(Greek: a suffix; battle, war, contest, fight)
theomachy
1. A striving or warring against God; opposition to the will of God.
2. A battle or strife among the gods; especially, in reference to that narrated in Homer’s Iliad.
2. A battle or strife among the gods; especially, in reference to that narrated in Homer’s Iliad.
Titanomachy
The warfare of the Titans.
trimachia
A series of three battles or a contest between three.
War or Battle Techniques that Continue Unabately
Techniques of War Operations
A general must be skillful in preparing the materials of war and in supplying his soldiers; he must be a man of mechanical ingenuity, careful, persevering, sagacious, kind and yet severe, open yet crafty, careful of his own but ready to steal from others, profuse yet rapacious, cautious yet enterprising.
If the enemy advances, we retreat.
If he halts, we harass.
If he avoids battle, we attack.
If he retreats, we follow.
If he halts, we harass.
If he avoids battle, we attack.
If he retreats, we follow.
Although disarmingly straightforward, these rules proved enormously effective. Under Giap's leadership, the North Vietnamese army expelled France in 1954, drove out the United States in 1973 and reunified Vietnam in 1975.
