First off, remember that the Trojan Horse is a myth, while Napoleon'sTheDecemberRains wrote: > I'm a little slow sometimes John. Could I get you to elaborate on
> why this couldn't happen in a crisis war? At this point I think
> I'm more interested in the angle you are coming from. Also can we
> take a moment to recognize how amazingly awesome the move by
> Russia against Napoleon was. Up there with the Trojan Horse it
> ranks as one of history's "greatest hits" of military
> tactics.
invasion of Russia actually occurred.
As Fishy suggests, a non-crisis war is rational, directed by
politicians, usually supported only half-heartedly by the public.
A crisis war is irrational, driven by the emotions of the people to
the point where the "rational" decisions of the politicians are
irrelevant, except insofar as they reflect the emotions of the people.
And those emotions are driven by a core determination that the life of
an individual has no value, and that the only things that matter are
survival of the society and its way of life. Given those emotions,
it's hard to see how an entire army could feign defeat.