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    Do you believe in the saying - offence is the best defence?

    Many people believe in the saying that 'offence is the best defence'. In practical terms it simply means that we have to be proactive and take aggressive actions so that our competitors or opposite parties become busy in safeguarding their interests and forget about attacking us.
    But this strategy may not work in certain situations especially when the opposite person or group is powerful enough to give us a befitting reply and defeat us.
    What is your opinion regarding this? Is following the above doctrine helpful in our lives? Or we should refrain from it?
  • #778659

    Points:4
    Some people might be believing in such sayings but I have no temperament for offending others. Literally this saying suggests us to take preventive or pre-emptive actions to avoid any expected aggression from outside or from any other entity.
    Nowadays people are very practical and intelligent. They will immediately find out the purpose behind any move by the offending party and might take their own safeguards and measures. People are always alert and cautious about these things and we cannot catch them unaware.
    Some countries which have expansionist policies make offences while the other country is not alert. They know that the country will now have to first defend itself and they will have the upper hand.
    Knowledge is power.

  • #778660

    Points:5
    Limited cricket matches made batsmen forget defence techniques. All batsmen are hitting fours and sixes only. When the batsmen are hitting the bowlers look at them helplessly and are not able to bowl and start bowling wides. This is making players to be aggressive and offensive only. Whether we have to go offensive or we have to be defensive is to be decided based on the situation. People who are daring and dashing only can expect success. If we always want to be in defence we have to go on obliging others. At the same time, unnecessarily going offensive always is also not correct.
    We have lost land to China when we are defensive and try to make friends with China. We won the battle over Pakistan when Lal Bahadur Sastry stood boldly and offended Pakistan. All should be proactive and should be ready to face any kind of situation.
    drrao
    always confident

  • #778698

    Points:5
    Many people give example of annexation of Tibet by China following the policy of offence. First China offered Tibet for a seventeen point agreement and have a peaceful annexation of it with them but the agreement was always met with doubts from Tibet rulers and finally was agreed by an acceptance message and not by signing the document. As the agreement did not practically materialised the way China wanted it so China entered Tibet and had little confrontation and in 1959 Dalai Lama, the then ruler of Tibet fled in exile and China took full control of Tibet. Unfortunately, Tibet had a small army with little expertise and at that time and no country came to help Tibet. India provided some little help but that was nothing in comparison to China's massive military strength.
    China took full advantage of Tibet's weak military position and poor standing in United Nations.
    Tibet was less political and more ethnic at that point of time and no way capable of attacking or retaliating to China. That made the annexation a simple offending exercise for China.
    Thoughts exchanged is knowledge gained.

  • #778743

    Points:3
    If you don't have the courage to fight, people these days will kill you without any mercy. One must use offensive attacks wherever necessary, otherwise the person attacking you will grow in confidence and win the battle. Gone are the days when people followed Gandhiji's principles. The world at the moment is so competitive that nobody wants their competitor to win at any cost.
    Humble yourself or life will do it for you!


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