The Art of Victory by Gregory R. Copley

Author:Gregory R. Copley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Published: 2006-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

APPEASEMENT IS NOT THE TOOL OF A VICTOR: A victorious society starts to lose its victory when it begins appeasing smaller powers which are snapping at its heels and demanding spoils. Appeasement flows only in one direction: from the victor to the challenger. The arguments for appeasement are those of the competing power put into the mouths of individuals in the camp of the victor. Appeasement is often mistaken for—or misrepresented as—the trading of land or rights or values for peace. It is never that. It is merely a disguised form of surrender by a society which values the peace of today more than the peace of the future.

Appeasement for “peace in our time” is the act of a society which does not think in terms of perpetuating its values, which does not think of the welfare or even the survival of succeeding generations. Appeasement is the enemy of victory, disguised as “reason.” Appeasement is the last stages of the squandering of the victory won earlier, and then gradually spent by successive degradations on the part of “managers.” When appeasement begins, either the society comes to the end of its victory or a new victory-oriented leadership emerges to reclaim the victory.

We have seen, in commercial terms, appeasement by corporate managements faced with unrealistic union demands, when long-term pension and health-care benefits have been promised to achieve short-term labor peace. Invariably the price for such appeasement is paid for later by shareholders and future management, either with the loss of corporate viability, or with the need to undertake painful restructuring.

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