Contents
Introduction: "Beasts? Badmen? or Buddhas of Battle?"....................1
Part I: From the Ninety-nine Sayings of Hannibal....................7
Introduction....................9
Hannibal's Five Rules for Revenge....................13
Hannibal's Six Movers of Men....................18
Part II: The War Scroll of Spartacus....................27
Introduction....................29
Lost in Translation? (Saying I)....................55
Different Paths (Sayings II–V)....................57
Slaves (Sayings VI–XVII)....................58
Memory and Patience (Sayings XVIII–XXVIII)....................62
Walls (Sayings XXIV–XXXVII)....................63
Words (Sayings XXXVIII–XXXXIII)....................66
The Hungry Man (Sayings XXXXIV–IL)....................68
Strategy (Sayings L–XCII)....................69
Fear and Blood (Sayings XCIII–CII)....................80
Death (Sayings CIII–CVII)....................82
The Gods (Sayings CVIII–CXIII)....................82
Miscellaneous Wisdom (Sayings CXIV–CVII)....................84
Part III: Yoritomo's Thirteen Powers of the Steel Shogun....................87
Introduction....................89
The Thirteen Paths to Power....................98
Yortitomo's "Twelve Cuts"....................100
Part IV: Blood Tells: The Dark Art of War—The Seventy-two Certainties of Dracula....................141
Introduction....................143
Certainties of the Fist (Sayings I–IV)....................146
Certainties of Words (Sayings V–XI)....................147
Certainties of Nature (Sayings XII–XXII)....................149
Certainties of How to Move Men (Sayings XXIII–XXXVI)....................153
Certainties of Strategy (Sayings XXXVII–LX)....................157
Certainties of Blood (Sayings LXI–LXVI)....................165
Certainties of Death (Sayings LXVII–LXXII)....................167
Part V: How to Start Your Own Cult and Secret Society....................169
Introduction....................171
The Nature of the Beast....................176
How to Recruit Cult Members....................177
Who to Recruit....................190
The Culling....................195
What's the Buzz?....................197
Cults and Sex: From Tantra to Polygamy....................199
The Ten Commandments of Cult Control....................201
The "Eleventh" Commandment....................209
Cult Case Study: The Nation of Islam....................211
Conclusion: "How to Win by Failing"....................225
Sources and Suggested Reading....................229
