Entity Dossier
Person
J. F. C. Fuller
Strategic Concepts & Mechanics
Strategic ManeuverEngage with the Expected, Win with the SurprisingMental ModelSnowmobile Synthesis from Unrelated PartsImplementation TacticPromote the Practitioners, Remove the ResistersStrategic ManeuverShape the Market Before the Fight BeginsOperating PrincipleFingerspitzengefühl Through Deliberate ApprenticeshipMental ModelImplicit Communication Beats Explicit by Orders of MagnitudeIdentity & CultureGarden Design Over Seed SelectionCompetitive AdvantageEinheit Outweighs Weapons CountMental ModelOrientation Is the Schwerpunkt, Not SpeedStructural VulnerabilityTwenty-Eight Years to Install Toyota's SystemMental ModelIf You Can Be Sand-Tabled, You Have No StrategyCompetitive AdvantageAsymmetric Fast Transients Beat Superior ForceIdentity & CultureSurvival on Your Own Terms as Strategic North StarRisk DoctrineClosed Systems Always Run DownStrategic ManeuverReconnaissance Pull Over Central PlanningCapital StrategyCost Reduction as Daily Operating DisciplineImplementation TacticMission Contract Replaces MicromanagementStructural VulnerabilityFog Grows Inside the Slower OrganizationDecision FrameworkBe the Customer, LiterallyMental ModelSchwerpunkt Is a Focusing Concept, Not a GoalMental ModelBad News Is the Only Useful Intelligence
Primary Evidence
"One of the contributors to the Blitzkrieg concept was, oddly enough, a British strategist, J. F. C. Fuller, whose works before WW II were carefully studied by the Germans."
Source:Certain to Win
"the British general whom the Germans credit as one of the sources of the Blitzkrieg, J. F. C. Fuller: It was to employ mobility as a psychological weapon: not to kill but to move; not to move to kill but to move to terrify, to bewilder, to perplex, to cause consternation, doubt and confusion in the rear of the enemy … 18 In other words, the purpose of Blitzkrieg strategy was not so much to cope with chaos, but to cause and then exploit it, and it is this cascading of panic and chaos that accounts for the German’s “string of luck.”"
Source:Certain to Win