Legal Commentary

The Long Tail (the Other One)

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

Now here’s an interesting heresy: Scrivener’s Error says,

In every declared symmetric conflict in the gunpowder era, the side with the higher tail-to-teeth ratio has won the conflict. Not every battle; not every asymmetric or undeclared conflict, although even there it’s statistically significant in favor of the big-tail forces. But every “war” has been won by the tail, not the teeth.

…

The short version of this is “Brave soldiers win battles; brave REMFs win wars.”

It just has to be the right sort of tail.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on July 27, 2008 (boomark / email).