It actually sounds like a former girl friend of mine but I suspect its origin lies elsewhere.
It actually sounds like a former girl friend of mine but I suspect its origin lies elsewhere.
for the low hanging fruit.
I wasn't specific. I meant who described Soviet support for insurgencies as a strategic variant of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob Thornton
This paper is from 1988.
Check page 19 here.
I read Denny's paper when it first came out, but I'm pretty sure the phrase originated with French strategic theorists in the 1950s.Quote:
Originally Posted by RTK
There was an old Chinese torture called Ling chi, a death by a thousand cuts. The cuts are all small, but in the end the person dies...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_slicingQuote:
Slow slicing (simplified Chinese: 凌迟; traditional Chinese: 凌遲; pinyin: língchí, alternately transliterated Ling Chi or Leng T'che), also translated as the slow process, the lingering death, or death by/of a thousand cuts, is a form of execution used in China from roughly AD 900 to its abolition in 1905. The term língchí derives from a classical description of ascending a mountain slowly.
This method of execution became a fixture in the image of China among some Westerners. It appears in various romantic accounts of Chinese cruelty, such as Harold Lamb's 1930s biography of Genghis Khan.
Steve,
Dude. I'm sorry about your girlfriend and you ... sounds bad.
From Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars
On Caligula:
"The method of execution that he preferred was to inflict numerous small wounds and his familiar order was 'make him feel that he is dying' "
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It actually sounds like a former girl friend of mine but I suspect its origin lies elsewhere.
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Steve, Dude. I'm sorry about your girlfriend and you ... sounds bad.
Steve, you dated Caligula?Quote:
On Caligula: