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"Doubtless we outnumber them, even with losses!" I had, of course, no knowledge of what might be the case outside the inn, but it was brought home to me, forcibly, the common military strategy of confusing one's enemies as to the nature and quantity of one's strength. An enemy's suspicions, and fears, often work to one's advantage. Let him conjecture the worst. Were there a hundred men outside, or ten, who, concealed, shifted about and distributed their fire? Were there a hundred men outside, or ten, who applied themselves efficiently, under conditions of limited vision, on a covered bridge, in a pass, or at the rear door of an inn not far from the North Road? Ten men can defeat a hundred if ten attack five, and attack five again, and again. Even in the earliest, preserved records of war, on both Earth and Gor, it is clear that a sophisticated variety of tactics was already in place, and familiar. There are men who study war with same avidity and attention as others study the materials of the earth and the movements of the stars. "No more than ten!" said Arashi. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter )