Contrasting Strategies of National Defense
| Old Strategies of National Defense |
New Strategies of National Defense |
| Strategy of controlling the enemy on the basis of fear and destruction |
Strategy of controlling the enemy on the basis of the power of friendliness and coherence, which destroys enmity |
| Fear-based defense technology means negativity-based defense—destruction. It is clear that this principle of defense is self-defeating. Accepting death for the sake of defense!!! |
Trust-based defense technology means positivity-based defense—enriching to life. This is the self-fulfilling principle of defense; confidence in one's own level of invincibility |
| Strategy of destroying the enemy to safeguard the peace and prosperity of one's own nation |
Strategy of destroying enmity in the environment and thereby disallowing an enemy to arise, to safeguard the peace and prosperity of one's own nation |
| Strategy of defense: skillful use of dynamism |
Strategy of defense: skillful use of silence |
| Military training was based on the strategy of restless dynamism of action |
Military training to be based on the strategy of restful, dynamic silence |
| Preparedness for war |
Victory before war |
| Readiness to attack in order to defend |
No need to defend—indomitable strength in national consciousness stops the birth of an enemy |
| Military responsible for meeting the danger when it has come |
Military responsible for averting the danger before it arises |
| National safety secured in the stockpiling of powerful weapons of mass destruction |
National safety secured by the increase of coherence in national consciousness creating an armor of invincibility for the nation |
| Defense based on attacking the strength of the enemy |
Defense based on attacking the weakness—enmity—the true enemy within both friend and foe |
| Might is right |
Right is might |
| Political treaties were no assurance for the defense and safety of the nation; the times have witnessed political friendliness today and invasion tomorrow |
Perpetual peace among nations on the basis of invincibility of all nations |
| The age-old responsibility of the military was to raise and maintain the power of destruction |
The new responsibility of the military is to raise and maintain higher consciousness for the nation |
The preceding table was adapted from the book Enlightenment to Every Individual: Invincibility to Every Nation by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1978, Rheinweiler, W. Germany: Maharishi European Research University Press, pp. 600 – 603). ©1978 by Maharishi European Research University Press. All rights reserved. Available from
Maharishi International University Press.
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